Title: Maxinquaye
Artist: [Tricky]
Release Date: 18/4/1995
Record Label: [Island Records]

Tracklisting:
1. [Overcome]
2. [Ponderosa]
3. [Black Steel]
4. [Hell is Around the Corner]
5. [Pumpkin]
6. [Aftermath]
7. [Abbaon Fat Track]
8. [Brand New You're Retro]
9. [Suffocated Love]
10. [You Don't]
11. [Strugglin']
12. [Feed Me]

After having been a member of [Massive Attack] for the release of the [trip hop] defining [album], [Blue Lines], [Tricky] signed to [Island Records] as a solo artist and released his [debut] [album], Maxinquaye, on the 18th of April 1995. [Critic]s were (rightly) [unanimous] in their praise for the ground-breaking work, and it entered the UK [album charts] at No.3, hung around at the top and eventually went [Gold].

Track 1, [Overcome], is basically a reworking of [Karmacoma], track 2 on [Massive Attack]'s second [album], [Protection], which [Tricky] sang (and probably wrote) anyway.
Track 3, [Black Steel], is a [bizarre] (in my opinion) cover of [Black Steel in the hour of Chaos] from [It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back] by [Public Enemy], which somehow works.
Track 4, [Hell is Around the Corner], is a reworking of [Eurochild], which also appears on [Protection]. It also uses the same [Isaac Hayes] sample used by [Portishead] on [Glory Box].

The album is named after [Tricky]'s mother, [Maxine Quaye]. A few years ago, [Finley Quaye] claimed he was [Tricky]'s cousin/uncle (different versions abound) and [Tricky]'s mother's name would lend some credibility to the story (which [Tricky] [vehemently] denies to be true), although, as far as I know, the matter is still unresolved.