Tricky: Different When It’s Silent

Tricky: Different When It’s Silent

The trip-hop icon’s latest album is stylistically uneven, but he sounds creatively energized, particularly on brooding, desolate songs where he grapples with parental grief.

Album Review: Tricky – Different When It’s Silent

The music media labels many artists as geniuses, progenitors, trailblazers, while only a handful are really deserving any of these or similar epithets. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, aka Tricky is one of those artists. He would have deserved one (or all) of those if he had only released Maxinquaye, his debut album from some 30 years or so ago. Yet he’s kept reconfirming that status through quite a few of 15 albums he released under his own name…

Tricky - Different When It's Silent (Album Review) - Stereoboard UK

Photo: Steve Gullick Tricky has always had his finger on the pulse of how the Western world feels. The albums released during his ‘90s heyday really captured something of their anxious postmodern age, something neatly encapsulated by the title of his 1996 full-length ‘Pre-Millennium Tension’....