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Artist Presale: May 12 @ 10:00 AM PT
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Different When It&rsquo\;s Silent is the first Tricky album in six years\, and with good reason.
Since 2020&rsquo\;s Fall to Pieces the musician has released an album\, and accompanying self-directed film\, under the name Lonely Guest\, an all -star 2021 project that included contributions from Oh Land\, Marta Zł \;akowska\, Idles&rsquo\; Joe Talbot\, Murkage Dave\, Maxï\;mo Park&rs quo\;s Paul Smith and\, in one of his final appearances on record\, Lee &l dquo\;Scratch&rdquo\; Perry. Three years later came Fifteen Days\ , a collaborative album from the artist born Adrian Thaws and producer Mik e Theis\, under the name Theis Thaws. Then\, last year\, he and Marta rele ased joint album\, \;Out The Way. All of those projects came out via False Idols\, the label he founded in 2013. You can&rsquo\;t say T ricky&rsquo\;s not been busy.

But Different When It&rsquo\;s S ilent is the first Tricky album in six years with bad reason\, too. I n 2019 his daughter died suddenly. \;

&ldquo\;To be honest wit h you\, since my daughter died\, I want to work\,&rdquo\; Tricky begins\, &ldquo\;I want to do stuff. But all the press\, being on camera\, everythi ng just changed when she died. I've never been a pop star as such but: tha t made me even more want to go in the background.&rdquo\;

Pointing to Fall to Pieces\, released the year after her passing\, he say s that &ldquo\;I was in pieces when I made that album. It was almost like I had to get that out of me. And then after that\, I was more worried abou t Marta's album or the label. So\, I wouldn't say I was reluctant to relea se music under my own name. But I wasn't that interested\, to be honest. I didn't have the motivation. Releasing an album under your name\, you got to do certain stuff. I can bring out a side-project with no press\, no pho tographs\, no videos\, no tour\, nothing at all. It's easy.&rdquo\;
Then\, in 2025\, Tricky&rsquo\;s new manager Alan McGee heard the songs the Bristolian had been working on at his new home in France and in the st udio in Bristol. In Tricky&rsquo\;s mind\, this was to be another side-pro ject. &ldquo\;Then Alan come to my house and I played it to him. He goes: &lsquo\;Mate\, this is a Tricky album. This is the best thing since Maxinq uaye. This has got to be a Tricky album.&rsquo\; It was Alan who convinced me to put it out as a Tricky album.&rdquo\;

That wasn&rsquo\;t man agerial hyperbole\, ass-kissing or smoke-blowing: Different When It&rs quo\;s Silent is\, no question\, the best Tricky album since his grou ndbreaking 1995 debut. Tight\, taut\, focused\, real\, raw\, rich\, melodi c\, melancholic\, defiant\, textured\, layered\, provocative\, grief-stric ken\, joy-bringing &ndash\; this 15th  \;studio album is Tricky&rsquo\ ;s musicianship at its confident\, thrilling\, no-one-else-sounds-like-thi s best.

Underscoring that idea of a full-circle moment is the first line of the first track. The skeletal blues of &ldquo\;Still See Me There &rdquo\; opens with \;&ldquo\;make me want to die&rdquo\;. It&rsquo\;s a callback to &ldquo\;Makes Me Wanna Die&rdquo\;\, a track from Pre-M illennium Tension\, the 1996 third album that followed the s ame year&rsquo\;s Nearly God (on which Tricky was joined by Bj&ou ml\;rk\, Alison Moyet\, Neneh Cherry\, Terry Hall and more) and capped an incredible 21-month opening burst from the musician. \;

&ldquo \;Yeah\, that is deliberate\,&rdquo\; he says. &ldquo\;Especially because it's a man singing it. This is the first album I've done with mostly male vocals. There's only one female vocal on this\, Marta. So that's deliberat e for a man singing \;'make me want to die'. It just changes things."< br>
That male vocalist is young Bristolian singer-songwriter Mitch Sand ers. He&rsquo\;s signed to Island\, the label Tricky was with for those fi rst few albums. But that&rsquo\;s not how Tricky knows him: he&rsquo\;s th e son of a friend of one of his best mates.

&ldquo\;Mitch is like a nephew. He's someone I'd hang out with when I was at school. We'd have b een playing football together\, going to pubs together. Mitch goes to the same pubs I went to when I was growing up. His dad went to the same clubs I went to. It's all the same community.

&ldquo\;So he was the right guy. He's not like an \;artist \;&ndash\; he's like a He ngrover\, a Knowle Wester\,&rdquo\; he continues\, referring to their resp ective and adjacent Bristol neighbourhoods. &ldquo\;Massive Attack\, love all those guys\,&rdquo\; Tricky goes on\, referring\, of course\, to the c rew he started out with. &ldquo\;But we were not from the same environment . So &rsquo\;cause Mitch and me are from the same environment\, that's wha t made it work.&rdquo\;

That\, and Sanders&rsquo\; stunning voice. He&rsquo\;s there\, leaning in soulfully\, over crunching guitar riffs\, o n the urgent &ldquo\;I&rsquo\;m Yours&rdquo\;. His eerie\, pained falsetto floats over the electro throb of &ldquo\;Because I Don't Know&rdquo\;\, s inging\, \;"Can you feel my pain? Do you feel the same? Just let m e know. Just let me know\,&rdquo\; \;as Tricky&rsquo\;s shadow vo cals lurk in the background.

Sanders is joined on the sinuous\, sen sual &ldquo\;Be Still in the Pain&rdquo\; by Red Run Rambo\, a rapper from Bristol. &ldquo\;Really good lad\,&rdquo\; says Tricky. &ldquo\;He spent a long time in prison\, and now he does a lot of social work. He goes into prisons and talks to kids. Very positive youth.&rdquo\;

Sanders t akes the lead in a different way on &ldquo\;Paris Maybe&rdquo\;. &ldquo\;T hat's Mitch's song. To me it was a no-brainer\, but Island didn't want it. When I heard it\, I thought: that's a pop vocal. So if I do the music\, i t don't have to be pop to get close to pop. So I took the vocals and redid the music.

Ideas\, inspirations and collaborators came from all di rections. There is an inspired cover of &ldquo\;Marinade&rdquo\; by Dope L emon\, the side-project of Angus Stone (&ldquo\;I fucking loved that song for years&rdquo\;)\, with largely new lyrics by Tricky. The track &ldquo\; Piano&rdquo\; features an opera singer. &ldquo\;Marinade&rdquo\; has a vio linist and cellist. &ldquo\;So Cold&rdquo\; features drum&rsquo\;n&rsquo\; bass-adjacent production. The gnarly funk of &ldquo\;Frontier Town&rdquo\; foregrounds the vocals of Christian Pattemore from Forgotton Pharaohs\, a ka the guy who was driving McGee around Los Angeles one time. &ldquo\;Chri stian said something what made me piss myself laughing. I just thought he was a funny\, interesting guy. And he said he does music. So I asked him t o send me some of his stuff. He sent me that and I just redid the music.&r dquo\;

As ever\, Tricky is pulling talent and inspiration from any where and everywhere. That\, he says with a shrug\, is just how he&rsquo\; s always\, instinctively done it.

&ldquo\;Making music is an oppor tunity for artists to bring someone along. I feel like that's part of the career. Back in the days\, you always had artists bringing up other artist s\, not-so-known artists supporting on tour. I always feel like it's good to bring someone who's not known. Who's not a famous actress or a famous s inger or a famous this or a famous that. Just people around you. And it's easier. And it's just a good vibe.&rdquo\;

Through this all\, thoug h\, like darkness making light seem brighter\, is a seam of loss\, of abse nce\, of pain. &ldquo\;I&rsquo\;m Yours&rdquo\; is a full-on rock track th at bubbles with grief\, sadness and anger. &ldquo\;I've had emotional loss \, but I've never had emotional loss \;and \;mental loss\ ,&rdquo\; says Tricky. &ldquo\;I really lost my mind. Nothing looked the s ame\, nothing tasted the same\, nothing sounded the same. So\, yeah\, I su ppose\, there is some anger on that track.&rdquo\;

The album ends with the charged and charging &ldquo\;Out of Place&rdquo\;\, Tricky sharin g vocals with Marta. \;"I sing for my daughter\,&rdquo\;  \;he says\, a simple\, powerful\, direct message that&rsquo\;s a full-stop on the 15 tracks. Originally written for Marta&rsquo\;s album\, Tricky re claims the song with renewed energy. \;

&ldquo\;Her vocals are mellow\, different. And it's almost like punk\, my vibe. I knew it had to be the last track. The only female vocal on the album\, and it's the last track\, and it's me talking about my daughter. It's a great way to end the album. And then I can move on to doing other things. There will always be lyrics about my daughter in my songs. But it won't be way so heavy. I can move on.&rdquo\;

Different When It&rsquo\;s Silent\, the n: the first Tricky album in six years\, for all the reasons\, good and ba d\, in the world. And now?

&ldquo\;Emotionally\, I'm saying I'm re ady to start my life again. I'm looking forward to touring. I want to reco rd. I was emotionally paralysed. Now I'm moving again. And sonically\, thi s lets people know: if you have your own sound\, you'\;ll never go out of fashion. When genres come and go\, you'll still be there. This album says that &ndash\; nothing sounds like it.&rdquo\;

Despite it all\, bec ause of it all\, Tricky is grateful\, too. \;

&ldquo\;I'm than kful to be able to do this for a living. I'm very grateful for the opportu nity I've gotten to live this life and make music. I just love it. I adore going in the studio. I don't have to answer my phone. It's real freedom. So I cannot wait to do more. But Alan's slowing me down &ndash\; because I want to do a Nearly God album again\, but call it Nearly Good! A nd Alan's like: &lsquo\;Alright\, let's do that in &rsquo\;27\, mate!&rsqu o\; But\, you know\,&rdquo\; he concludes\, grinning wide\, &ldquo\;I just love making music.&rdquo\; \;

On the life-celebrating \;< em>Different When It&rsquo\;s Silent\, it wholly\, vividly\, brillian tly sounds like it.

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