Blowback (album)
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| Studio album by Tricky | ||||
| Released | 2 July 2001 | |||
| Genre | Trip hop, electronica, electronic rock, nu metal | |||
| Length | 58:36 | |||
| Label | ANTI-, Hollywood | |||
| Producer | Tricky | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 65/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Los Angeles Times |  |
| NME | 6/10 |
| Pitchfork | 3.1/10 |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Spin | 5/10 |
| The Village Voice | A |
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.
Blowback received generally positive reviews from critics, although many of Tricky's longtime fans disliked it. According to Encyclopedia of Popular Music writer Colin Larkin, it was hailed as Tricky's best record since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye, while PopMatters critic Jeffrey Thiessen later called it "a great pop album nobody liked".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".Village Voice journalist Robert Christgau named it the fourth best album of 2001 in his list for the annual Pazz & Jop critics poll. He later said Blowback was Tricky's most "songful" release but had been "criminally neglected" by listeners.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.
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