Maxinquaye
by Tricky
- Type: Album
- Released: 20 February 1995
- Label: 4th & Broadway
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 57:11
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 15 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Maxinquaye' is a foundational, incredibly sensual masterpiece of trip-hop that launched Tricky's solo career. The album thrives on intense, whispered paranoia, blending dark, sluggish hip-hop beats with dub and post-industrial textures into a deeply atmospheric, nocturnal urban landscape.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, conscious, dissonant, drugs, female vocalist, hedonism, male-vocalist, rhythmic, sampling, leftfield, rap, experimental, minimal, bassy
Tracklist
- Overcome (4:29)
- Ponderosa (3:30)
- Black Steel (5:39)
- Hell Is Round The Corner (3:46)
- Pumpkin (4:30)
- Aftermath (7:38)
- Abbaon Fat Tracks (4:26)
- Brand New You're Retro (2:54)
- Suffocated Love (4:53)
- You Don't (4:39)
- Strugglin' (6:38)
- Feed Me (4:03)
Credits
- Tricky - primary artist, producer, vocals, written-by, written-by, producer
- Cally - art direction, design, photography by [random shots]
- Andy Earl - photography by [tricky shoot], photography
- Paul Rider - photography by [tricky shoot], photography
- Valerie Phillips - photography by [tricky shoot], photography
- Richard Baker - photography by [tricky sticky], artwork
- Rob Crane - photography by [tricky sticky], artwork
- Mark Saunders - keyboards, producer
- Martina Topley-Bird - vocals, written-by
- Marcella Detroit - written-by [sample]
- Siobhan Fahey - written-by [sample]
- Howie B. - producer, written-by
- FTV - guitar, drums
- Carlton Ridenhour - written-by
- Eric Sadler - written-by
- Hank Shocklee - written-by
- William Jonathan Drayton - written-by
- Isaac Hayes - written-by [sample]
- Alison Goldfrapp - vocals
- Tony Wrafter - flute
- Kevin Petrie - producer
- James Stevenson - guitar
- Pete Briquette - bass guitar
- Ragga - vocals
- Baron Von Callmeister - photography