Angels with Dirty Faces [IMPORT]

Tricky

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 2, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Island UK
• ASIN: B000024AJH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #89,855 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Money Greedy

2. Mellow

3. Singin' the Blues

4. Broken Homes

5. 6 Minutes

6. Analyze Me

7. Moment I Feared

8. Talk to Me (Angels With Dirty Faces)

9. Carriage for Two

10. Demise

11. Tear Out My Eyes

12. Record Companies

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

What's really tricky is following up a debut as innovative and exquisite as 1995's Maxinquaye. Third time out (fourth if you count 1996's perplexing duets project Nearly God) and the artist formerly known as Adrian Thaws is still struggling to find the right balance of ambition and ability on Angels with Dirty Faces. The album has its moments: including a stirring collaboration with Polly Harvey on the bluesy "Broken Homes" and singer Martina Topley-Bird's eerie rendering of Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" on "Carriage for Two." If you liked the claustrophobic mire of last year's Pre-Millennium Tension, Angels won't disappoint. Otherwise, you may find it a downer. --Aidin Vaziri

Product Description

Out-of-print in the US. Universal.

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He is the King!, August 16, 2000

By	MaddKhameleon (Singapore: The City of Sin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angels with Dirty Faces (Audio CD)

Portishead are too sad, Massive Attack are too pretentious for their own good these days, in the so-called Bristol trip-hop scene, Tricky is the genius, if Aphex Twin is the Mozart of the electronic generation, Tricky is the Bach. However, while his `Maxinquaye' was critically acclaimed, his follow-ups `Pre..' and `Angel' are atrociously underrated, come on! How many times have these ignorant critics listen to his music, they don't even understand what message Tricky is trying to convey. `Max' was his pop effort, it sounded cool, that's why they raved it, hypocrites! The sound on his follow-up efforts are much more progressive, much more alien, in many ways, much better. Both of them are more Tricky, (trickier?) than `Max', the ever lovely and talented P.J Harvey is featured here, yeah! I had been craving for that collaboration for long when this was first release, however, at first listen, I was hugely disappointed. The music sounds like it was composed by Ravel, the voice does not sound like P.J Harvey at all, it sounds too saccharine for my appreciation. At that time, this collaboration to me was even worse than Massive's `Teardrop', (I was totally disgruntled with the degradation of Liz Fraser's voice.) Fortunately,'Broken Homes' as well as the album really grow on you. The prerequisite condition is: you have to risk your life to enter the labyrinth, you might lose yourself in it, you might lose sanity, you might even lose your life. Here is a challenge: are you gutsy enough to try? This album is filled with distorted guitar effect, clearly, Tricky has moved on much further, much more dangerous territories than his peers, so far that his peers probably have to take another 5 years to make albums like `Angel'. He has left the whole world behind I guess, iniquitous! I can envisage him spitting on our faces and calling us `Plebeians', but... what else can we do? We ARE, no matter how trendy we may look, out of style to him. WE can do nothing but regurgitate on his music.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bought on release and STILL play it every so often, August 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Angels with Dirty Faces (Audio CD)

If you want cutting edge music - I mean REALLY want cutting edge music not some Rolling Stone baby boomer critic's latest pet band - then Tricky has to be on your list! Tricky is definitely not for the weak of heart, but I like him! He makes the kind of nasty hip-hop that mainstream artists only talk about doing. If you want an idea of his sound: imagine out of control turntables, techno stripped of everything but mechanical noises of rage and then merge that with his spewed vocals. The only thing keeping it from skidding out of control are the beats and basslines. Very edgy! And then he'll throw in a few somewhat conventional songs like "Broken Homes" and "Singing the Blues" to keep it sorta grounded. He does a bunch of tracks on this CD ("Money Greedy", "6 Minutes", "Record Companies", etc.) that deal with fame and the BS that goes with being in the music business. In a way, this is like a concept album, however the unplanned feel of the music and his sporadic lyrics seem to suggest Tricky wouldn't care to sit around tinkering with ideas to much - it sounds as if he just goes into a studio and explodes! I bought this CD when it came out, and I still listen to it every so often - so Tricky's got to be more than just some radical curiosity on the music scene. I never bought his first CD, but I do have PMT and Grassroots - both of which I love. AWDF has a lot more live instrumentation and, although that's really niether a plus nor a minus, it proves that Tricky is still experimenting. As long as he has something to say, Tricky will never be bad.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Difficult uncompromising listen...(but Worth the effort!!), October 30, 2003

By	fetish_2000 (U.K.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angels with Dirty Faces (Audio CD)

Tricky...obviously tired of people constantly referencing his first album "Maxinquaye", distances this album from that album by stripping back on the production, raising the level of Dub-paranoia, collaborating with more female vocalists, Cranking up the tension, and using shattered broken beats, to challenge the listener...and for anyone that's a first time "Tricky" listener...Don't start with this album, start with Maxinquaye!!, and work you way up through his album releases, because if ever an album could reasonably be labelled `Grows consistently with every listen', this is it!!...as it all so richly layered and textured that every single listen unearths something new. Although that's not to say that it's completely impenetrable to first time listeners...as "Singing The Blues / Talk to Me (Angels With Dirty Faces) / 6 Minutes & especially "Broken Homes" rates as some of his best & most accessible work.....truly a album for the discerning listener.