Juxtapose (album)

Juxtapose
Studio album by Tricky
Released	August 16, 1999
Genre	Trip hop, alternative hip hop
Length	34:50
Label	Island/IDJMG/Universal Records 546 432
Tricky chronology
Angels with Dirty Faces (1998) Juxtapose (1999) Blowback (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A− [2]
Entertainment Weekly	B [3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
Alternative Press	[5]
Q Magazine	[6]
Melody Maker	[7]
Muzik	[8]
Spin	[9]
NME	[10]

Juxtapose is the fourth album by Tricky, in collaboration with DJ Muggs and Grease (Ruff Ryders & DMX producer). Two tracks with DJ Muggs find their way to the only single "For Real" ("Pop Muzik", a cover of the song by M) and the Japanese release ("Who"). Martina Topley-Bird does not appear on the album; instead Kioka Williams provides the majority of the female vocals on the album and the following tours. The album also features a British emcee named Mad Dog on two tracks.

Track listing

1. "For Real"
2. "Bom Bom Diggy"
3. "Contradictive"
4. "She Said"
5. "I Like the Girls"
6. "Hot Like a Sauna"
7. "Call Me"
8. "Wash My Soul"
9. "Hot Like a Sauna" (Metal Mix)
10. "Scrappy Love"
11. "Who" (Japan bonus track)
12. "Bombing Bastards" (featuring Terranova) (Japan bonus track)

Track notes

• The song "Contradictive" appeared in Brokedown Palace.
• The song "Scrappy Love" appeared in Without a Trace.

Charts

Year	Country	Position
1999	UK Albums Chart	22
1999	Billboard 200 (U.S.)	182

References

1. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r426356/review
2. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist2.php?id=1624
3. Entertainment Weekly (8/20-27/99, p.129) - "...Slighter than usual, but by current rap standards, refreshing enough." - Rating: B
4. http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tricky/albums/album/112366/review/5946000/juxtapose
5. Alternative Press (9/99, p.120) - 3 out of 5 - "...all over the place....most of [JUXTAPOSE] sounds like intuitive variations on the sonic organism he created.
6. Q (9/99, p.110) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...JUXTAPOSE [proves] that this particular artistic fire remains stoked and that...he's gamely heading off into the territory of the individualist."
7. Melody Maker (8/14/99, p.35) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...this new album is the spliff-addled gutter-poet's finest moment to date. A shattered hip-hop dream. Bleakly comic, furiously romantic..."
8. Muzik (9/99, p.74) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...An entirely uncomfortable listen, for sure. All the same, precisely the record we've all been willing Tricky to make for years."
9. Spin (9/99, p.187) - 7 out of 10 - "...shows in sonic sonic choices unheard-of for this mansion haunter....Pretty groovy for what feels more like basement tapes than a proper LP..."
10. NME (Magazine) (8/14/99, p.32) - 7 out of 10 - "...the churning murk has been replaced by some semblance of clarity, structure and melody....He's the Mark E Smith of washed-out industrial trip-hop, spewing garbled but sporadically brilliant verbage....There's plenty to enjoy here."