Blowback (album)

Blowback
Studio album by Tricky
Released 2 July 2001 (2001-07-02)
Genre Trip hop, electronica, electronic rock, nu metal
Length 58:36
Label ANTI-, Hollywood
Producer Tricky
Tricky chronology
Juxtapose
(1999)		 Blowback
(2001)		 Vulnerable
(2003)

Blowback is the fifth album by Tricky, released in 2001. Like Nearly God, Blowback contains several collaborations, but the album's sound is much brighter and more relaxed by comparison. Tricky himself said that he wanted to get airplay with this album, while most of his earlier albums were made to stay off the radio. Guest performers on Blowback include Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Josh Klinghoffer, and John Frusciante from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cyndi Lauper, Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk and less known artists such as Hawkman, Stephanie McKay and Ambersunshower, with whom he already worked in 1996 for the charity compilation Childline.

A new song called "Question" and an alternate version of the song "Diss Never" (both with Alanis Morissette's vocals) are still unreleased, because her label Maverick Records held them back.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic65/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
NME6/10[6]
Pitchfork3.1/10[7]
Q[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
Spin5/10[10]
The Village VoiceA[11]

Blowback received generally positive reviews from critics,[1] although many of Tricky's longtime fans disliked it.[12] According to Encyclopedia of Popular Music writer Colin Larkin, it was hailed as Tricky's best record since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye,[3] while PopMatters critic Jeffrey Thiessen later called it "a great pop album nobody liked".[12] Simon Price deemed Blowback Tricky's best album since 1996's Pre-Millennium Tension and "his most accessible since Maxinquaye, writing in The Independent that the artist's move to New York "away from the petty politics of the music business" had resulted in "a dark, dense album of future-funk and deep dub".[13] Village Voice journalist Robert Christgau named it the fourth best album of 2001 in his list for the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.[14] He later said Blowback was Tricky's most "songful" release but had been "criminally neglected" by listeners.[15] Pitchfork's Brent DiCrescenzo was less receptive, finding much of the music "horrible" and plagued by Tricky's poor lapses in creative judgment, particularly in his decision to record duets with Anthony Kiedis and Ed Kowalczyk.[7]

Tricky later commented on Blowback stating he ""did Blowback for the money basically 'cause I was broke"[16]

Track listing

  1. "Excess" – 4:43
  2. "Evolution Revolution Love" – 4:09
  3. "Over Me" – 2:57
  4. "Girls" – 4:21
  5. "You Don't Wanna" – 5:25
  6. "#1 Da Woman" – 2:40
  7. "Your Name" – 3:35
  8. "Diss Never (Dig Up We History)" – 2:50
  9. "Bury the Evidence" – 4:51
  10. "Something in the Way" – 3:24 (Nirvana cover)
  11. "Five Days" – 4:19 (With Cyndi Lauper)
  12. "Give It to 'Em" – 3:04
  13. "A Song for Yukiko" – 4:10

Track notes

Additional information

Charts

Year Country Position
2001 UK Albums Chart 34
2001 Billboard 200 (US) 138

References

  1. 1 2 Metacritic
  2. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r538010/review
  3. 1 2 Larkin, Colin (2011). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. p. 3535. ISBN 0857125958.
  4. ↑ Sellout, you say? Think again: Tricky provides just enough wicked topspin to give his pop a loopy bounce. [13 July 2001, p.86]
  5. ↑ Los Angeles Times review
  6. ↑ NME review
  7. 1 2 http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/8155-blowback/
  8. ↑ Q (8/01, p.141) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...It should remind long-disillusioned fans what they liked about tricky in the first place....still strange and uncategorisable..."
  9. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20100226181324/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tricky/albums/album/201787/review/5945945/blowback
  10. ↑ Gross, Joe (August 2001). "Blowback". Spin. New York: 134–135. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Christgau, Robert (7 August 2001). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  12. 1 2 Thiessen, Jeffrey (24 January 2013). "A Great Pop Album Nobody Liked: Tricky's 'Blowback'". PopMatters. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  13. ↑ Price, Simon (1 July 2001). "Blowback". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 February 2003. Retrieved 23 October 2016.
  14. ↑ Pazz & Jop 2001: Dean's List. The Village Voice.
  15. ↑ Christgau, Robert (26 November 2010). "Expert Witness: Shad/Tricky". MSN Music. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "Tricky". Exclaim!. June 2003. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

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