David Bennun interviewed Tricky several times for Melody Maker in the 1990s and reviewed Maxinquaye on its release. He assesses how his relationship to this landmark album has changed over the intervening decades. This article was first published on 20 February 2015
For a long time, I didn't listen to it. It was like a house you'd lived in, or your old school. Somewhere that for a while, an eventful and formative while, had seemed like the centre of the world. Then you move on, and other things happen. You lead a different life, become a different person. When you do go back, it's uncanny. In the Freudian sense: altogether familiar, altogether strange. It all seems so much smaller now, a...
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