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April 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky and Rickie: Two Great Recent Music Memoirs

I’ve read so many music biographies, memoirs and autobiographies. I used to call it an “occupational hazard” – I mean it was nearly a first love, I remember reading books about John Lennon and Mick Jagger and Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan when I was 12 and 13 years old. I was into all sorts […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Blog, Book, Hell Is Round The Corner, Last Chance Texaco, Music Memoir, Rickie Lee Jones, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, Tricky, Tricky and Rickie: Two Great Recent Music Memoirs, Two Great Recent Music Memoirs ·

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March 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: 20, 20 (ep)

Tricky 20, 20 (ep) False Idols Tricky is one of the most distinctive, idiosyncratic voices in modern music across the last quarter century. You hear in every release how he’s taken from – and given to – the worlds of hip-hop, trap, grime, electro, pop and so many hybrid genres and then out into the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged $20, 20-20, 20/20, Album Review, Bjork, David Bowie, EP, False Idols, Maxinquaye, Pre-Millennium Tension, The XX, Tricky, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Blowback Flashback: A Tricky Album That Is Not At All Difficult To Love

There I was in the car on a Friday night, wondering when the right time was to enter the Te Rauparaha Arena to see The Original Wailers (conclusion: I’m not sure there was a right time) and I was chatting with my friend (who I will refer to here as Nik; because I always have before). We were talking about Tricky […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Tricky Album That Is Not At All Difficult To Love, Blow Back, Blowback, Blowback Flashback, Blowback Flashback: A Tricky Album That Is Not At All Difficult To Love, Flashback, Tricky, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 523

Massive Attack, Mezzanine (1998) I remember seeing the video for Teardrop – and stopping in my tracks. It was a Saturday morning, it was peak-era for MTV and the whole integration of music/videos for me; you watched music TV, you took it in, it was how you found out about new stuff. I was probably […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1998, Inertia Creeps, LP, Massive Attack, Mezzanine, Music Video, Record, Teardrop, The Vinyl Countdown # 523, Tricky, Trip-Hop, Video, Vinyl ·

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May 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life

I recently posted this – a list of “Ten important metal albums”. And I started it off by linking to this – “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I mentioned then that I would be doing a series of these, across genres, and I repeated the opening paragraph from the hip-hop post. So now I’m going to […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Andrew Weatherall, Aphex Twin, Blue Lines, Daft Punk, Dance, Depeche Mode, Dorfmeister, Drukqs, Electronica, Hometown, Kid A, Kruder, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield, Leftism, Little Fluffy Clouds, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Maxinquaye, Mezzanine, Nearly God, No Protection, Pre-Millennium Tension, Primal Scream, Protection, Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s), Re-Wired For (New) Sound(s): Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, Screamadelica, Sounds From The Thievery Hi-Fi, Ten Important Electronica Albums In My Life, The K&D Sessions, The Orb, The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Thievery Corp., Thievery Corporation, Tricky ·

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February 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums From 1995: The Year I Left Home

In 1995 I moved to Wellington, ostensibly for university, but in reality it was to start an enormous CD collection. Most of that collection has now been replaced by vinyl – and/or Mp3s. That’s because 1995 is closer is more than 20 years ago now. But at the time I was buying up music, having […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1995, Albums, Around The Next Dream, BBM, Carnival, CD, Five albums from 1995, Five albums from 1995: The Year I Left Home, Formative, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Going Home Again, Kristin Hersh, Leaving Home, Limbo, Maxinquaye, Natalie Merchant, Nostalgia, Prince, Records, Sam Hunt, The Gold Experience, The Year I Left Home, Throwing Muses, Tigerlilly, Tricky, University, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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February 3, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Massive Attack: Ritual Spirit (ep)

Massive Attack Ritual Spirit (ep) Melankolic Recordings Limited This brand new EP by Massive Attack is only four songs – but it offers so much more, it comes as part of an announcement of a bevy of new music, another EP to follow and a full-lengther straight after that. It’s a big statement – in […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 3D, Album Review, Azekel, EP, Leftfield, Massive Attack, Mezzanine, Ritual Spirit, Ritual Spirit (ep), Roots Manuva, Tricky, Young Fathers ·

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December 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dean Blunt: Black Metal

Dean Blunt Black Metal Rough Trade I never know quite what to think with Dean Blunt – but I know I like what he’s up to. I found The Redeemer an intriguing and often wonderful record and the latest, Black Metal, is an all-new template, the latest version of his best work. Since his work […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Black Metal, Dean Blunt, Hype Williams, Inga Copeland, The Redeemer, Tricky ·

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September 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: Adrian Thaws

Tricky Adrian Thaws !K7 I love the world you enter whenever there’s a new Tricky album – it’s utterly unmistakable, it’s his own sound, a swirling vortex of post-punk and whatever’s left of trip-hop and always there’s just a hint of a future-sound to whatever he releases. Tricky keeps himself current by a) updating his […]
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January 23, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Orrin: Nocturnal

Orrin Nocturnal Dunn Deal Orrin is an 18-year old rapper with a big baritone voice and Nocturnal is his second album, but he doesn’t come out popping all quick-fire, high-pitched, whiney, trying so hard with rhymes, his trick is to lay right back let it sink in slowly. In fact, if you imagine Jamie xx […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Jamie xx, Nocturnal, Orrin, The XX, Tricky ·

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July 23, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Tricky: False Idols

Tricky False Idols False Idols/!k7 Tricky’s tenth studio album is his first on his label (also called False Idols). It kicks off with Somebody’s Sins, it’s his version of John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme mantra using the Patti Smith refrain of “Jesus died for somebody’s sins/But not mine”. Adept as a covers artist, Tricky also knows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blog On The Tracks, Blowback, False Idols, Knowle West Boy, Maxinquaye, Mixed Race, Pre-Millennium Tension, Tricky, Vulnerable ·

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June 19, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Kanye West: Yeezus

Kanye West Yeezus Virgin Records He might think he’s Jesus – or bigger than – Yeezus even (whatever that actually is?) – but on New Slave you hear him boast that he’s bigger than his own race, presumably better too. He also, in saying it’s better to be a dick than a swallower, manages to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Hip-Hop, Kanye, Kanye West, Strange Fruit, Tricky, Yeezus ·
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