Pepper compiles five remixes of Come From Heaven tunes plus three rare tracks. As with the record from which it culls the raw materials, this EP ain't nothing to write home about. In fact, Pepper is one of those offensively innocuous CDs that slip by the censors at young record labels every once in a while. At least Tricky can piss people off. In 44 minutes, Alpha inspires nothing short of listlessness and ennui.
Pepper suffers from the same poor choice of vocalists evidenced last time around.
Melankolic rapper Lewis Parker is predictably sophomoric, like an English Puff Daddy. On the contrary, it means that Pepper is light- years behind the energy and inventiveness of Tricky's Angels With Dirty Faces , as limp as Bob Dole, and about as essential as Hanson's Three Car Garage . In short, you'd be better off blowing that hard- earned Alexander Hamilton on a cheesy blockbuster, burnt popcorn, and Tang.