Tricky
Knowle West Boy

Making the personal universalafter a five year hiatusIs it a coincidence that both Portishead and Tricky release new albums this year Though they bot...

The popular theory about Tricky, in short, goes like this: first he was angry and moody all the time and released brilliant records, and then he got b...

Alas, poor Tricky, I knew him well, a fellow of infinite psychosis...   So read the numerous career obituaries written for Tricky during this l...

Thirteen years after debut album "Maxinquaye" was hailed as the zeitgeist of the mid-'90s U.K. trip-hop scene, Tricky is still spinning his rugged, mo...

For an album whose title promises to see the one-time Massive Attack member, toast of the chattering music classes and Hollywood debutante return to h...

As a young British urban musician, you have two choices. You can play the product of your environment; tie your personality to the streets and the nei...

Tricky - born Adrian Thaws in Knowle West, Bristol, and once partial to suffixing his music-making moniker of choice with a ‘Kid’ - turned 40 in Janu...

The 2008 revival of the Bristol massive continues apace with the final missing fixture of Tricky who returns with his first album for five years, name...

Tricky's eighth album begins with the boy from Knowle West performing to a barroom piano and double bass like a British Tom Waits. It may seem an odd ...

The cohesion of a truly great album might be lacking, but one guesses that this was more about an identity check for Tricky Being a Tricky Kid must ...