Tricky - Maxinquaye Super Deluxe]

Tricky’s groundbreaking and peerless 1995 debut-album Maxinquaye is being reissued in triple-LP, single-LP, double-CD and digital formats. 

Maxinquaye (Reincarnated) contains rarities and brand new versions of tracks many of which have not been officially released before, and comes with brand new artwork containing a rare image of Tricky's late mother, of whom the album is named after.

+ Single-LP contains the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studio.

+ Super deluxe triple-LP and double-CD contains six new 'Reincarnated'  versions of tracks recorded by Tricky in 2022, previously unreleased BBC session tracks recorded with a full live band in the autumn of 1995 as well ‘Black Steel’ performed live at Glastonbury that same year and it concludes with some rough monitor mixes.

+ Digital version (CD) also includes eight remixes originally unreleased including one from Leftfield.

With creative control on the project, Tricky started reworking tracks from the original album in 2022 which have never before been released and allow Maxinquaye (Reincarnated) to be a natural evolution of the original release. “If you’re an artist or a musician and you look back at your old stuff,” he reasons, “if you don’t think it’s dated then you’re either stood still or you’re satisfied with what you’ve done.”

Maxinquaye remains one of the most groundbreaking records in British music history. Upon its released in 1995, it was met with resounding critical acclaim receiving near perfect scores from music critics across the board – Melody Maker deemed it “gripping, original, sublime”, NME said the record was “… unprecedented, spellbinding and revealed something new with every listen” … even David Bowie took it upon himself to write a letter to Tricky in the August of 1995 proclaiming “I’ve loved Maxinquaye for some time”. In more recent times The New York Times and Guardian have respectively said of it  “… [an] album-length masterpiece” and “Time has not dimmed the impact of this extraordinary record”.