29/04/1996 | Happy Release Day 1996 | Tricky - Nearly God Island #tricky #islandrecords #nearlygod @trickyofficial @islandrecords Pop Matters: „This album was referred to as “minimalist trip-hop” due to its sparse instrumentation, and contained collaborations with artists as diverse as Björk, Neneh Cherry, and Alison Moyet.“ The Face: „Where did the name Nearly God come from? It was from a bloke who interviewed me in Germany last year. He came in and said, "So how does it feel to be God?", then stopped and went, "Well, nearly God.““ Irish Times: „The album is what one would term a bit more "experimental" and a bit less "commercial" than Maxinquaye“ „The highlights, as always, are whenever Tricky backs Martina and to this end, I Be The Prophet and Black Coffee are, in a word, stunning pieces of work and more importantly a glorious glimpse of what's in store on the "real" Tricky album later this year. He be the prophet.“ Entertainment Weekly: „Eschewing spacey trip-hop grooves, it’s filled with hypnotic, grinding soundscapes over which he and guests plaintively whisper.“ SPIN: „… Nearly God is most indebted to Riot for the idea that an attention to details, a precise awareness, can capture from entropy's numbing flow small gifts of nuance and emotional resonance.“ Fact Mag: „Described by Tricky as “a collection of brilliant, incomplete demos,” Nearly God is a bright, often-forgotten reminder of just how unmatched Tricky was in the 1990s. He called the record Nearly God, for fuck’s sake, and that wasn’t far from the truth.“ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8dxOFMUrn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
