Tricky - Angels with Dirty Faces
first thing: this album is amazing - but even closer to commerical suicide
than the last one. Lots of guitar stuff going on( Scott Ian from Anthrax
plays on about 1/2 the album + Marc Ribot on some of the others), real drums
on most tracks too. Pretty raw - a lot of it feels like Black Steel ( from
Maxinquaye ). Funky. The vocals have been fucked with a lot. The three
pronouncements my flatmate made listening to it yesterday were "dub
influence" + "prog rock is coming back into fashion" + "almost sounds like
it could be JJ Cale". the closest thing I can think of is Tom Waits. Quite a
few of the tracks sound like all the parts were played in isolation, they
don't sit together comfortably at all - but somehow they work. I wouldn't be
surprised if Derek Bailey turned up on the next album.