Maxinquaye
by Tricky
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Maxinquaye is ranked as the best album by Tricky.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 11/24/2025 22:12 | Exist-en-ciel | 6,341 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/23/2025 08:09 | NYAndreas | 1,432 | 43/100 |
| ! | 08/21/2025 15:07 | daCritic | 4,388 | 73/100 |
| ! | 07/14/2025 08:43 | habibi333 | 920 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/12/2025 14:00 | CharonBri | 1,001 | 75/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.5/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.4.
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Shortlisted for album of the year at the 1995 Mercury Prize. The winner was Dummy by Portishead
First half is filled with good tracks then it gets more and more boring.
Very solid first half, rather dull second. Everything up to aftermath is very listenable. Starts to drag rather from there.
A strong first half that is let down greatly by the slow and boring second half. To start with the positives you have some absolutely fantastic tracks at the start of the record. It starts off with a great song in Overcome and is then followed up by amazing tracks such as Black Steel and Hell Is Around The Corner. All of these songs have fantastic vocals and the beats on them are so intelligent and always get stuck in my head. The start of the record is just so relaxing and it flows so perfectly from song to song. It is a shame that this isn't maintained and you get the final 30 or so minutes of the record feeling extremely drawn out. The sound feels repetitive by this point and you are ready for the album to finish as I found myself constantly being distracted whilst listening. Overall, you can see the influence this record had but the quality just isn't consistent enough for this to be amongst the greats.
teague 09/08/2020 16:08 | #257908
It does lag a bit in the second half, but Maxinquaye still offers a lot to the listener. Definitely check this out if you like Post-era Björk.
Timestarter 05/29/2020 18:17 | #252514
Fav. Tracks: Hell Is Round The Corner, Aftermath.
Sandrof1969 02/19/2018 17:42 | #208827
Spin-off dei Massive Attack ( dei quali comunque è sempre stato solo un collaboratore ), Tricky da solo ( da solo per modo di dire… ) fa assai bene, anche se la casa madre è un'altra cosa. Atmosfere plumbee, ritmi lenti ma a volte convulsi, ottima musica da club fumosi e quel blues per il nuovo millennio ( campionato da Isaac Hayes ) che è "Hell's around the corner".
planetneutral 02/02/2018 19:45 | #207018
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Good record. Perfect for late night chilling out. Slightly overlong but still very good.
The first half is particularly great. While it's definitely not my favourite trip hop album, it clearly had a huge influence on Massive Attack's Mezzanine, and for that, I will always think highly of this debut album.
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