Juxtapose (album)

Juxtapose
Studio album by Tricky
Released August 16, 1999
Genre Trip hop, alternative hip hop
Length 34:50
Label Island/IDJMG/Universal Records
546 432
Tricky chronology

Angels with Dirty Faces
(1998)		 Juxtapose
(1999)		 Blowback
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau A− [2]
Entertainment Weekly B [3]
Rolling Stone [4]
Alternative Press [5]
Q Magazine [6]
Melody Maker [7]
Muzik [8]
Spin [9]
NME [10]

Juxtapose is the fourth album by Tricky, in collaboration with DJ Muggs and Grease (Ruff Ryders & DMX producer). Two tracks with DJ Muggs find their way to the only single "For Real" ("Pop Muzik," a cover of the song by M) and the Japanese release ("Who"). Martina Topley-Bird does not appear on the album; instead Kioka Williams provides the majority of the female vocals on the album and the following tours. The album also features a British emcee named Mad Dog on two tracks.

Track listing

  1. "For Real"
  2. "Bom Bom Diggy"
  3. "Contradictive"
  4. "She Said"
  5. "I Like the Girls"
  6. "Hot Like a Sauna"
  7. "Call Me"
  8. "Wash My Soul"
  9. "Hot Like a Sauna" (Metal Mix)
  10. "Scrappy Love"

Track notes

Charts

Year Country Position
1999 UK Albums Chart 22
1999 Billboard 200 (U.S.) 182

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r426356/review
  2. ↑ http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=1624
  3. ↑ Entertainment Weekly (8/20-27/99, p.129) - "...Slighter than usual, but by current rap standards, refreshing enough." - Rating: B
  4. ↑ http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tricky/albums/album/112366/review/5946000/juxtapose
  5. ↑ Alternative Press (9/99, p.120) - 3 out of 5 - "...all over the place....most of [JUXTAPOSE] sounds like intuitive variations on the sonic organism he created.
  6. ↑ Q (9/99, p.110) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...JUXTAPOSE [proves] that this particular artistic fire remains stoked and that...he's gamely heading off into the territory of the individualist."
  7. ↑ Melody Maker (8/14/99, p.35) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...this new album is the spliff-addled gutter-poet's finest moment to date. A shattered hip-hop dream. Bleakly comic, furiously romantic..."
  8. ↑ Muzik (9/99, p.74) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...An entirely uncomfortable listen, for sure. All the same, precisely the record we've all been willing Tricky to make for years."
  9. ↑ Spin (9/99, p.187) - 7 out of 10 - "...shows in sonic sonic choices unheard-of for this mansion haunter....Pretty groovy for what feels more like basement tapes than a proper LP..."
  10. ↑ NME (Magazine) (8/14/99, p.32) - 7 out of 10 - "...the churning murk has been replaced by some semblance of clarity, structure and melody....He's the Mark E Smith of washed-out industrial trip-hop, spewing garbled but sporadically brilliant verbage....There's plenty to enjoy here."