Tricky, Sounds Of Guns
Outside Tricky’s Shockwaves NME Awards gig, there’s a pair of city-hippies wearing all kinds of offending wool and smoking what your mother has never used in a herb salad. Inside, there’s a far less rebellious atmosphere. Liverpool’s Sound...
Tricky
Trust Tricky to turn an innocent, saccharine pop number about dancing in the disco by Kylie into a sleazy-electro track bordering on the filthy. Honestly, this wouldn’t be out of place soundtracking the most hardcore of porn flicks. ‘Slow’...
Tricky
The cycle of musical fashion is vicious. For years, prog was the laughing stock of the rock family, then The Mars Volta and Mystery Jets came along and suddenly you could mention ELP without having stones thrown at you by children. Similarly...
Tricky : A Rough Guide To...
If an artist's duty is to constantly evolve and engage both the inner and outside worlds with truth, then Tricky has been an artist supreme. A notoriously difficult, and often misunderstood character, he has slowly matured from Bristol...
Tricky : Blowback
So, this is the 'real' Tricky, then; the one nasty former label Island didn't want you to see. It's Tricky uncovered; emotionally unplugged, with raw honesty and the naked, sensual Truth fizzing from its multifarious grooves like exposed wires....
Tricky : London Royal Festival Hall
Tricky has been through dark times over the last two years. Having been diagnosed with a rare food allergy which sent him spiralling to the edge of madness, the former Massive Attack rapper has returned with a new record deal (Epitaph), album...
Mission Accomplished EP
Difficult to pinpoint exactly when it started going wrong for Tricky. But if we're to hazard a guess, we'd say it was sometime immediately after his debut album 'Maxinquaye' in 1995, judging by the decreasingly relevant aural sludge he's deemed...
Juxtapose
When last we encountered Adrian Thaws he appeared locked into a self-destructive cycle of grating subterranean noise, ugly B-boy posturing and journo-punching petulance. After three albums largely composed of grime-caked, gravel-voiced, tune-shy...
London WC2 Astoria
Fuck you, he won't do what they tell him to, of course. Expect an easy ride, and he'll give you hell. So Tricky 's new album, 'Juxtapose' , is his most approachable since the culture-defining millstone of 'Maxinquaye' , framing his usual...
