Word: trickyã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Tricky and Björk shared beginnings early on in their respective careers on the Nearly God album after both of them had released phenomenally popular debut albums that redefined the way people listened to electronic music. Tricky??s seminal album, Maxinquaye has a sound so original that critics invented the genre “triphop” in an attempt to contain it, while Björk’s first two albums, Debut and Post had already established her as the new queen of dance music, with numerous hit singles and co-authorship of the title...
Björk and Tricky??s paths diverged dramatically after that—Tricky continued to remix Björk’s songs, but soon wound up in a fightfist with her fiancee Goldie, later to disappear into the obscurity of what has since been diagnosed as a rare hormone disease. He released albums that were proogressively more radio-unfriendly, while Björk released the acclaimed Homogenic, and became so famous that she was the victim of fan attacks and stalkers. Björk then starred in last year’s Dancer in the Dark...
...artists release what are possibly their finest albums ever. With Blowback, Tricky, recovered from his hormone disease, has released the album he has apparently avoided making since Maxinquaye. His latest is an instant classic that puts his previous few albums in the context they deserve, proving that all of Tricky??s experiments and claustrophobic introspection were deliberate choices, not the leavings of an artist who has lost his way. Interestingly, he has adopted a low profile on his own album, while reaping the benefits of a bizarre and fantastic series of collaborations, from various elements...
...contrast to Tricky??s swerve back into the mainstream, Björk has taken a subtle left turn up her own secret street and found yet another playground, with its own female choir and Zeena Parkins on harp. With computer mix duo Matmos assisting with the intricately layered gurgles and rattles that serve Björk where others are reduced to hitting skins with sticks, Björk wraps her voice around you and seduces you entirely. Where Tricky mixes himself into the background in favor of his collaborators, Björk knows that it is only...