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Knowle West Boy
by: Tricky

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5034202019527
Label: Domino
Manufacturer: Domino
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Domino
Release Date: July 07, 2008
Studio: Domino
Sales Rank: 1035

Disc 1:
  1. Puppy Boy
  2. Bacative
  3. Joseph
  4. Veronika
  5. C'mon Baby
  6. Council Estate
  7. Past Mistake
  8. Coalition
  9. Cross To Bear
  10. Slow
  11. Baligaga
  12. Far Away
  13. School Gates
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Knowle West Boy is Wonderful!
This album is amazing whether you are a Tricky fan or not. After seeing him perform two tracks from this album on Later with Jools i couldn't wait for it's release! I wasn't disappointed. If this album was only half as good i still wouldn't have been. It's got everything. Council Estate has an energy i haven't heard or felt since Punk and Two Tone were born. Puppy Toy is a really strong song - it's funny too! Veronika is Powerful because of it's starkness and the lyrics, and it grows on you. C'mon Baby is one of my favourites becouse it's so catchy without being naff and has great lyrics! Buy This Album if you're a fan, try it if you're not!


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Tricky,s mish-mash nod to the mainstream album...very enjoyable it is too.
Few artists can manage to make music that veers from maverick left field commerciality to the outer limits of miscreant self indulgence. While he's to be applauded in theory for the latter the results have usually made me want to clap my hands over my ears rather than bring them together in appreciation. Thankfully Knowles West Boy( named after the area in Bristol where he grew up ) his first album for five years see's Tricky return in many ways to the more mercantile material of his seminal debut Maxinquaye.
Not that this album can be classed as the trip -hop of that in some ways millstone of an album. Knowles West Boy covers ragga - "Baligaga" and "Bacative" with Rodigan on vocals, Grinderman type sweaty rock with "C, Mon Baby" ... Read More:


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What do you expect?
This is classic Tricky - forget trip-hop, portishead, MA blah blah blah labels - if you find some connection with Tricky's previous material, for whatever reason, you'll enjoy listening to this latest offering.
Personally, I hope Tricky will continue to produce material like this, which has his trademark sound all over it.
Another reviewer commented 'same old previously trodden path' - well, yeah - but the path is long and hopefully there's plenty more miles to walk.


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Old paths re-trodden.
Nothing here that hasn't been done before. If this is Tricky exorcising his demons, then plenty have done better. This is the sound of fury, signifying nothing, to paraphrase Shakespeare. Before you know it, this album is over. It's just a wash of sonics, with no discernible purpose other than to satisfy some need within Tricky's oeuvre. This is the sound of the middle-aged man trying to sound valuable in his decline. Some people need to be told that when it's over, it's over (refer Bowie, Scott Walker, and all those others "stiff on their legends").


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - It may be a cliche but this is a real return to form
I have been an avid follower of Tricky since Maxinquaye, which most people deem his finest moment. Although I do think Maxinquaye is a great album I really feel Tricky began maturing with Blowback and Vulnerable, he has been finding his feet and losing that hit and miss approach, creating an instantly recognisable 'Tricky' sound, and at the same time sticking two fingers up to those that wanted Maxinquaye MKII.

This album see Tricky creating more disjointed beats and bleeps, low growls and sweet females, mixing political rants (Coalition) against long forgotten teenage angst (School Gates).

I know every release is touted as a return to form but this album is truly the strongest material he has ever released, its not easy ... Read More:
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