{"id":9849,"date":"2013-05-08T10:37:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:38:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:38:12","slug":"tricky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/tricky-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TRICKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9850\" alt=\"Tricky-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tricky-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tricky-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tricky-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>TRICKY<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>False Idols<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[False Idols]<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 18 years since Tricky released <i>Maxinquaye<\/i>, the trip-hop masterpiece that expanded that genre\u2019s parameters. Nine albums later, he\u2019s still trying to top it. The British producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist named his second album <i>Pre-Millennium Tension<\/i>, and he\u2019s been working that theme, more or less, ever since.<\/p>\n<p><i>False Idols <\/i>hits all the usual signposts: densely layered beats, gritty dance rhythms, scratchy electronics and deep, dark ambient tones. Plus, the barely whispered vocals of singers seemingly one bong hit away from nodding off. Opener \u201cSomebody\u2019s Sins\u201d borrows its first line from Patti Smith\u2019s \u201cGloria,\u201d swapping poetic heft for simmering menace. \u201cParenthesis\u201d transports Brooklyn rockers the Antlers to the outer rim of doomsday. And on the skittering \u201cNothing\u2019s Changed,\u201d Tricky underscores singer Fran Belmonte, who guests throughout. In other words, not much has changed since <i>Maxinquaye<\/i>. But the pre-millennium tension doesn\u2019t hold quite the same nervous energy 13 years into\u00a0the new century. \u2013Michael Gallucci<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRICKY False Idols [False Idols] It\u2019s been 18 years since Tricky released Maxinquaye, the trip-hop masterpiece that expanded that genre\u2019s parameters. Nine albums later, he\u2019s still trying to top it. The British producer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist named his second album Pre-Millennium Tension, and he\u2019s been working that theme, more or less, ever since. False Idols [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6542,6467,2324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9854,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9849\/revisions\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}