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Track Listing
1. Tattoo
2. Poems - (with Terry Hall/Martina Topley-Bird)
3. Together Now - (with Neneh Cherry)
4. Keep Your Mouth Shut - (with Bjork)
5. I Be the Prophet - (with Martina Topley-Bird)
6. Make a Change - (with Alison Moyet)
7. Black Coffee - (with Martina Topley-Bird)
8. Bubbles - (with Terry Hall)
9. I Sing For You - (with Cath Coffey)
10. Yoga - (with Bjork)
11. Judas - (with Martina Topley-Bird)
12. Children's Story - (featuring Martina Topley-Bird)
Album Notes
Nearly God: Tricky (vocals).
Additional personnel: Martina Topley Bird, Neneh Cherry, Bjork, Alison Moyet, Terry Hall, Cath Coffey (vocals); Dedi Madden (background vocals).
Producers: Tricky, Pete Briquette, Mark Saunders.
Recorded at The Music Corporation, Ringwood, Hampshire, England.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #19 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/25/1997)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...engrossing music, recalling the early intimacy of Laurie Anderson, the raw aggression of Public Image Ltd. and the spaced oddities of Scott Walker and Underworld. Blues guitar notes get ripped away from tradition....subtle beats provide accent and flavor below floating orchestrations...
Rolling Stone (08/22/1996)
8 (out of 10) - ...In place of the usual bass-heavy beats, Tricky here glues together stark and melodic rhythm tracks out of bits or refuse; a steel-drum fragment fastened to a vague rustle, tied up with a synth hoot like the passage of a ghost in a silly horror movie...
Spin (09/01/1996)
...he takes dance music's sample-and-loop aesthetic and inverts it; the pulse augments the music's textures instead of the other way around....follows its own fluid logic, pooling here, eddying there, or rushing like rapids....NEARLY GOD ends up sounding wholly divine.
Musician (10/01/1996)
Recommended - ...in the tradition of 19th century mystics, fasting to create visionary states...Tricky, the true poet, fearful at the borderline....in the tradition of lazy, spliffed-up, fogged-over bastards, staring bleary at all-night TV...Tricky, the autistic auteur...
Melody Maker (04/20/1996)
...Eschewing spacey trip-hop grooves, it's filled with hypnotic, grinding soundscapes over which he and guests plaintively whisper. With GOD, Tricky's created a new genre: ambient apocalypse. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (08/16/1996)
5 (out of 5) - ...Through an obfuscating veil of Indo smoke and relentless ambition, Tricky transfigures himself as musical divinity...
Alternative Press (10/01/1996)
...Eschewing spacey trip-hop grooves, it's filled with hypnotic, grinding soundscapes over which he and guests plaintively whisper. With GOD, Tricky's created a new genre: ambient apocalypse. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (08/16/1996)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...engrossing music, recalling the early intimacy of Laurie Anderson, the raw aggression of Public Image Ltd. and the spaced oddities of Scott Walker and Underworld. Blues guitar notes get ripped away from tradition....subtle beats provide accent and flavor below floating orchestrations...
Rolling Stone (08/22/1996)
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