Tricky
Mixed Race

TRICKY’S previous album ‘Knowle West Boy’ was a triumphant artistic rebirth, for many of us the one we’ve been hoping for ever since the heady days of...

The bleak trip hop of Tricky can be a polarizing affair at the best of times, which pretty much makes Mixed Race a record that’s either going to be ad...

Adrian Thaws gained notareity in the early-’90s as “Tricky Kidd,” one half of the Bristol based production duo Massive Attack. He later rose to inte...

Fifteenyears after the epochal Maxinquaye,it's clear that the guy who made that richly layered masterpiece is not comingback. Indeed, in the notes to ...

Fifteen years ago, Tricky’s Maxinquaye seemed opulent and otherworldly, and it still does. But much of Tricky’s subsequent output has mined the same b...

“This is… the most uptempo album I’ve done. I wanted something that could be played in a club… maybe! Which is unusual for me. Because I don’t give a ...

In 1995, it felt like hell was hiding somewhere just around the corner. Heading into middle school, in a nearly all-black school, in a nearly all-blac...

Tricky's ninth studio album, Mixed Race, could be described as his 'guitar album' as many of the tracks revolve around guest guitarist Hakim Hamadouch...

One of the music world's last provocateurs returns. Tricky, one of thefew remaining trip-hop powerhouses making music since the '90s, offers up Mixed ...

I once happened to walk past Tricky in London’s trendy Carnaby Street (woo, fact fans!) and had one of those classic moments where you realise this pe...