 Reviews of the 2009 deluxe edition continued to praise the album and highlight its originality . Rupert Howe of Q magazine awarded it five stars out of five and called it " an album of contradictions " , saying that at the time it " sounded as alien to hip hop as it did to Britpop " and concluding , " Maxinquaye proved impossible to live up to ... while subsequent Tricky albums tested both musical boundaries and patience , his experiments here still glow with mystery and magic " . In another five @-@ star review in Mojo , Victoria Segal said , " Maxinquaye still sounds like it came from space rather than Bristol , an exotic , erotic alien that nobody ( not least its creator ) has managed to clone " . 
