Knowle West Boy

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Knowle West Boy
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Studio album by
Tricky
Released7 July 2008 (2008-07-07)
Recorded2007
Length45:53
Label Domino
Producer Tricky, Bernard Butler
Tricky chronology
Vulnerable
(2003)		Knowle West Boy
(2008)		 Mixed Race
(2010)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Blender Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Entertainment Weekly B [4]
Drowned in Sound 6/10 [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
NME 7/10 [7]
Pitchfork 5.8/10 [8]
PopMatters 7/10 [9]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [11]

Knowle West Boy is the seventh studio album by musician and producer Tricky, released by Domino Records on 7 July 2008 in Europe, and 9 September 2008 in North America.

Contents

A remixed version of the album called Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew was released in 2009 and was mixed by Florida-based producers South Rakkas Crew. [12]

Details

The first single, "Council Estate", samples "Roads" by Portishead from the 1994 album Dummy . It was the first single that Tricky had ever done with just himself on vocals. He commented: "I couldn't whisper that song. I had to come out of myself and do a loud, screaming vocal. I wanted to be a proper frontman on that one." [13]

"Cross to Bear" features guest vocals from Hafdís Huld.

"Veronika" is a cover of the song "Livido Amniotico" by Subsonica (featuring Veronika Coassolo), which was first published as one of three previously unreleased studio tracks in their 2003 live album Controllo del livello di rombo .

Track listing

All music is composed by Tricky and Bernard Butler except where noted.

Knowle West Boy track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Puppy Toy" (ft. Alex Mills)3:34
2."Bacative"3:51
3."Joseph" (ft. Joseph Franklin Hunt)2:29
4."Veronika" (Tricky, Veronika Coassolo)3:00
5."C'mon Baby"3:04
6."Council Estate"2:39
7."Past Mistake"5:07
8."Coalition"3:59
9."Cross to Bear"3:47
10."Slow" (Kylie Minogue, Mr. Dan, Emilíana Torrini)3:22
11."Baligaga"3:42
12."Far Away" (Tricky, Veronika Coassolo)3:38
13."School Gates"3:47

Charts

Chart performance for Knowle West Boy
Chart (2008)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [14] 93
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 35
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 35
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] 89
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [18] 86
French Albums (SNEP) [19] 31
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 95
Italian Albums (FIMI) [21] 53
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [22] 48
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [23] 25
UK Albums (OCC) [24] 63
US Billboard 200 [25] 147

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