TRICKY – SLOW (DOMINO)
Tricky doing Kylie? That’s a pretty good concept and definitely one that was always going to work. Much in the vein of his version of “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos”, even though Tricky adds guitars to the cover, it remains a resoundingly electronic version produced by Bernard Butler from Suede. Whoops.
This is definitely a song that could be taken one of two ways. Had I not already heard the original I probably would have lent it more kudos but knowing what I do, the original version is never far from my mind or consciousness.
While the music hardly serves to thrill it is the strange reality of Tricky barely sounding as if he is on the track with raises the highest eyebrow. With weedy overproduced guitars seemingly the main difference to the music, the big if is what is Tricky playing at putting his musky voice so deep down in the mix? Are we supposed to think that he and the rent-a-voice doing all the works on the vocals are actually shagging?
Not before time the song is over and suddenly the guy sounds like a trick to me. This is music equivalent of a rub and tug. A bad one at that.
The “Bullion Mix” on the reverse serves to tweak my interest a bit more but by now he has failed the class.
Thesaurus moment: clanger.
Tricky
Domino
Tricky doing Kylie? That’s a pretty good concept and definitely one that was always going to work. Much in the vein of his version of “Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos”, even though Tricky adds guitars to the cover, it remains a resoundingly electronic version produced by Bernard Butler from Suede. Whoops.
This is definitely a song that could be taken one of two ways. Had I not already heard the original I probably would have lent it more kudos but knowing what I do, the original version is never far from my mind or consciousness.
While the music hardly serves to thrill it is the strange reality of Tricky barely sounding as if he is on the track with raises the highest eyebrow. With weedy overproduced guitars seemingly the main difference to the music, the big if is what is Tricky playing at putting his musky voice so deep down in the mix? Are we supposed to think that he and the rent-a-voice doing all the works on the vocals are actually shagging?
Not before time the song is over and suddenly the guy sounds like a trick to me. This is music equivalent of a rub and tug. A bad one at that.
The “Bullion Mix” on the reverse serves to tweak my interest a bit more but by now he has failed the class.
Thesaurus moment: clanger.
Tricky
Domino
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