This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Someday very soon, I suspect, every member of trip-hop guru Tricky’s family will have his or her own album.
The former Massive Attack member (and nephew of former Elton John guitarist Caleb Quaye) started the familial ball rolling by christening his first album Maxinquaye after his mother. Then came uncle Finley Quaye with 1997’s Massive A Strike. Now it’s cousin Mark Porter’s turn; his foursome Baby Namboos, signed to Tricky’s Durban Poison imprint. The dark, freaky and impressive Ancoats2Zambia refutes any charges of musical nepotism, however; its dozen tracks are firmly rooted in the bass-heavy Bristol trip-hop style, swimming in rubbery, dubby riddims and haunted by the same tense sense of paranoia and spooky, whispered vocals made famous by Porter’s cuz (who, for those keeping score, turns up on three cuts). Guess it just runs in the family.
