Tricky - Pre-millennium Tension - RARE Vinyl LP album (1996) / Massive Attack
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Description
The iconic, dark, uncompromising, asthmatic third album from Knowle West's favourite son, Tricky, on delicious vinyl. Pre-Millennium Tension is anything but easy listening - its gorgeousness creeps up on you like morphine - deep, blissful, more than a little claustrophobic and with a distinct itch around the edges. Lovely copy in very good condition - sleeve has no major creases or bumps (although it does have very slight silver fingerprint markings on the rear cover - pic 2. No idea how I managed that!); disc has a couple of extremely light hairline marks which make no discernible difference when listening. Otherwise pristine. This is now really hard to get hold of on vinyl, without mortgaging your granny. Grab a bargain while you can.
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Sample sounds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87029rOg5ic&ab_channel=MusicCraveEntertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te3-KmKhjpc&ab_channel=MusicCraveEntertainment
Product review Somehow or other, in the last two months, PMT has managed to wrap its seductive claws around me: I used to hate it, and now I love it to pieces. Funny how some albums can do that to you, isn't it?
The opener, Vent, sets the tone for the remainder of the album: dark, brooding and compulsive, Tricky rasps, "can hardly breathe" over a bass line that ripples around him. The pattern continues with track two, "Christiansands", before the barely restrained anger of "Tricky Kid" seeps through the speakers. There are other gems on this album: "Sex Drive" sounds like nothing I've ever heard before, but it retains Tricky's anger in the earlier tracks. The album continues piling on the acrimony in "Lyrics of Fury", and even the last track, "Piano", runs uneasily between sharp chords and the medical pump creeping along in the background.
Despite all-round quality, there is a definite winner here. If one song stops you in your tracks and makes you listen, it is "Makes me Wanna Die", which remains one of the most achingly beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard.
Be warned, this album takes some patience; but I guarantee, if you stick with it, you'll be rewarded with some of the finest, and most thoughtful music ever made.
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