"Unity makes you stronger -- you need that in this business," declares Adrian Thaws, aka Tricky. Empowered with that philosophy, the Bristol, England-bred artist banded together with musical comrades… ...
Once trip-hop’s dark lord, Tricky now fancies himself as the music’s all-inclusive ambassador, especially to America. The creative decisions on the first half of “Blowback,” his fifth solo disc, sound ...
Tricky, Blowback (Hollywood): “Evolution Revolution Love,” one of the more effective stylistic smashups on Tricky’s Blowback, begins as a haunting string-orchestra introspection. Ed Kowalczyk, the ...
"Love in the Time of Science" Virgin Perhaps the most striking thing about "Maxinquaye," Tricky's brilliant 1995 debut, was that it was all-enveloping; no other doomstruck pop has ever muttered "no ...
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 ...