This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to […]
Although he’s managed to cloak himself in mystery for the last 30 years of his career, Tricky offered a surprising level of candor and transparency in his must-read 2019 memoir, Hell Is Round the Corner. As he documents in the book, the Bristol-born musician has always used music to escape a reality plagued by misfortune, violence […]
Tricky dropped a new single/video, “I’m in the Doorway” today (Aug. 25), from his upcoming thirteenth studio album, Fall to Pieces album, due out Sept. 4 on False Idols. The tune, which follows previous singles “Fall Please” and “Thinking Of,” features guest vocals courtesy of Danish singer Oh Land. The founding member of Massive Attack explained in a […]
Tricky is back. The trip-hop pioneer announced plans to release his 14th studio album and his first since 2017’s Ununiform. Fall to Pieces came at a traumatic time for him following the death of his daughter. The album was recorded at his home in Berlin. And for most of it, he collaborated with Marta Złakowska, the singer who […]