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Pre-Millennium Tension by Tricky
Pre-Millennium Tension is an album by Tricky, released in 1996. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Christiansands”, on 2 lists with a best position of #60.
Pre-Millennium Tension, Tricky's second album, crawled out on Island on 11 November 1996, a year after Maxinquaye won him wide acclaim and got him filed under trip hop, and it sounds like a man trying to wriggle out of the filing cabinet. Tricky saw it as a break from the genre traits critics had pinned on his debut, and he makes the break by dragging everything further into the shadows: beats that stagger, bass that seeps, voices muttered more than sung. It's the Bristol underground with the lights switched off.
He was prolific that year, also putting out the pseudonymous Nearly God, and "Christiansands" is as close as this record comes to an open door. The critics followed him down anyway: the Pazz & Jop poll named it the ninth best record of 1996.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Pre-Millennium Tension on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christiansands | 2 | #60 | – | 1997–1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.