BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:360exp REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:c1411477-4e27-4305-8bb8-efa4a3b885e6@360exp.net SEQUENCE:29842590 DTSTAMP:20260928T041619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T003054Z DTSTART:20260930T020000Z DTEND:20260930T050000Z SUMMARY:Tricky LOCATION:Hollywood Theatre DESCRIPTION:Different When It’s Silent is the first Tricky album in six y ears\, and with good reason.\n\nSince 2020’s Fall to Pieces the musician has released an album\, and accompanying self-directed film\, under the n ame Lonely Guest\, an all-star 2021 project that included contributions fr om Oh Land\, Marta Złakowska\, Idles’ Joe Talbot\, Murkage Dave\, Maxï mo Park’s Paul Smith and\, in one of his final appearances on record\, L ee “Scratch” Perry. Three years later came Fifteen Days\, a collaborat ive album from the artist born Adrian Thaws and producer Mike Theis\, unde r the name Theis Thaws. Then\, last year\, he and Marta released joint alb um\, Out The Way. All of those projects came out via False Idols\, the lab el he founded in 2013. You can’t say Tricky’s not been busy.\n\nBut Di fferent When It’s Silent is the first Tricky album in six years with bad reason\, too. In 2019 his daughter died suddenly. “To be honest with yo u\, since my daughter died\, I want to work\,” Tricky begins\, “I want to do stuff. But all the press\, being on camera\, everything just change d when she died. I've never been a pop star as such but: that made me even more want to go in the background.”\n\nPointing to Fall to Pieces\, rel eased the year after her passing\, he says that “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 about Marta's album or the label. So\, I w ouldn't say I was reluctant to release 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 photographs\, no videos\, no tour\, nothi ng at all. It's easy.”\n\nThen\, in 2025\, Tricky’s new manager Alan M cGee heard the songs the Bristolian had been working on at his new home in France and in the studio in Bristol. In Tricky’s mind\, this was to be another side-project. “Then Alan come to my house and I played it to him . He goes: ‘Mate\, this is a Tricky album. This is the best thing since Maxinquaye. This has got to be a Tricky album.’ It was Alan who convince d me to put it out as a Tricky album.”\n\nThat wasn’t managerial hyper bole\, ass-kissing or smoke-blowing: Different When It’s Silent is\, no question\, the best Tricky album since his groundbreaking 1995 debut. Tigh t\, taut\, focused\, real\, raw\, rich\, melodic\, melancholic\, defiant\, textured\, layered\, provocative\, grief-stricken\, joy-bringing – this 15th studio album is Tricky’s musicianship at its confident\, thrilling \, no-one-else-sounds-like-this best.\n\nUnderscoring that idea of a full- circle moment is the first line of the first track. The skeletal blues of “Still See Me There” opens with “make me want to die”. It’s a ca llback to “Makes Me Wanna Die”\, a track from Pre-Millennium Tension\, the 1996 third album that followed the same year’s Nearly God (on which Tricky was joined by Björk\, Alison Moyet\, Neneh Cherry\, Terry Hall an d more) and capped an incredible 21-month opening burst from the musician. \n\n“Yeah\, that is deliberate\,” he says. “Especially because it's a man singing it. This is the first album I've done with mostly male vocal s. There's only one female vocal on this\, Marta. So that's deliberate for a man singing 'make me want to die'. It just changes things.”\n\nThat m ale vocalist is young Bristolian singer-songwriter Mitch Sanders. He’s s igned to Island\, the label Tricky was with for those first few albums. Bu t that’s not how Tricky knows him: he’s the son of a friend of one of his best mates.\n\n“Mitch is like a nephew. He's someone I'd hang out wi th when I was at school. We'd have been 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 .\n\n“So he was the right guy. He's not like an artist – he's like a H engrover\, a Knowle Wester\,” he continues\, referring to their respecti ve and adjacent Bristol neighbourhoods. “Massive Attack\, love all those guys\,” Tricky goes on\, referring\, of course\, to the crew he started out with. “But we were not from the same environment. So ’cause Mitch and me are from the same environment\, that's what made it work.”\n\nTh at\, and Sanders’ stunning voice. He’s there\, leaning in soulfully\, over crunching guitar riffs\, on the urgent “I’m Yours”. His eerie\, pained falsetto floats over the electro throb of “Because I Don't Know ”\, singing\, "Can you feel my pain? Do you feel the same? Just let me k now. Just let me know\,” as Tricky’s shadow vocals lurk in the backgro und.\n\nSanders is joined on the sinuous\, sensual “Be Still in the Pain ” by Red Run Rambo\, a rapper from Bristol. “Really good lad\,” says Tricky. “He spent a long time in prison\, and now he does a lot of soci al work. He goes into prisons and talks to kids. Very positive youth.” S anders takes the lead in a different way on “Paris Maybe”. “That's M itch'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\, it don't have to be pop to get close to pop. So I took the vocals and redid the mu sic.”\n\nIdeas\, inspirations and collaborators came from all directions . There is an inspired cover of “Marinade” by Dope Lemon\, the side-pr oject of Angus Stone (“I fucking loved that song for years”)\, with la rgely new lyrics by Tricky. The track “Piano” features an opera singer . “Marinade” has a violinist and cellist. “So Cold” features drum ’n’bass-adjacent production. The gnarly funk of “Frontier Town” fo regrounds the vocals of Christian Pattemore from Forgotton Pharaohs\, aka the guy who was driving McGee around Los Angeles one time. “Christian sa id something what made me piss myself laughing. I just thought he was a fu nny\, interesting guy. And he said he does music. So I asked him to send m e some of his stuff. He sent me that and I just redid the music.”\n\nAs ever\, Tricky is pulling talent and inspiration from anywhere and everywhe re. That\, he says with a shrug\, is just how he’s always\, instinctivel y done it.\n\n“Making music is an opportunity for artists to bring someo ne along. I feel like that's part of the career. Back in the days\, you al ways had artists bringing up other artists\, not-so-known artists supporti ng 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 singer or a famous this or a famou s that. Just people around you. And it's easier. And it's just a good vibe .”\n\nThrough this all\, though\, like darkness making light seem bright er\, is a seam of loss\, of absence\, of pain. “I’m Yours” is a full -on rock track that bubbles with grief\, sadness and anger. “I've had em otional loss\, but I've never had emotional loss and mental loss\,” says Tricky. “I really lost my mind. Nothing looked the same\, nothing taste d the same\, nothing sounded the same. So\, yeah\, I suppose\, there is so me anger on that track.”\n\nThe album ends with the charged and charging “Out of Place”\, Tricky sharing vocals with Marta. "I sing for my dau ghter\,” he says\, a simple\, powerful\, direct message that’s a full- stop on the 15 tracks. Originally written for Marta’s album\, Tricky rec laims the song with renewed energy.\n\n\n“Her vocals are mellow\, differ ent. And it's almost like punk\, my vibe. I knew it had to be the last tra ck. 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 the n I can move on to doing other things. There will always be lyrics about m y daughter in my songs. But it won't be way so heavy. I can move on.” Di fferent When It’s Silent\, then: the first Tricky album in six years\, f or all the reasons\, good and bad\, in the world. And now? “Emotionally \, I'm saying I'm ready to start my life again. I'm looking forward to tou ring. I want to record. I was emotionally paralysed. Now I'm moving again. And sonically\, this lets people know: if you have your own sound\, you'l l never go out of fashion. When genres come and go\, you'll still be there . This album says that – nothing sounds like it.”\n\nDespite it all\, because of it all\, Tricky is grateful\, too. “I'm thankful to be able t o do this for a living. I'm very grateful for the opportunity I've gotten to live this life and make music. I just love it. I adore going in the stu dio. 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 – because I want to do a Nearly G od album again\, but call it Nearly Good! And Alan's like: ‘Alright\, le t's do that in ’27\, mate!’ But\, you know\,” he concludes\, grinnin g wide\, “I just love making music.” On the life-celebrating Different When It’s Silent\, it wholly\, vividly\, brilliantly sounds like it.\n \nMinimum age: 19+\n\nBoletos: https://ra.co/events/2537020 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/c1411477-4e27-4305-8bb8-efa4a3b885e 6 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR