“The trip-hop icon’s latest album is stylistically uneven, but he sounds creatively energized, particularly on brooding, desolate songs where he grapples with parental grief.”
“"Make me want to die." Rolling over the plodding bass guitar dirge that opens Tricky's 15th studio album like fog off a pond, the first line on Different When It's Silent belongs to a new boy from Bristol — or rather, it's voiced by one. As his stage name suggests, authorship has always been deeply muddied in Tricky's world. Since his solo debut on 1995's Maxinquaye, Adrian Thaws has routinely r”
“Different When It’s Silent sees Tricky avoid the nostalgia act”
“Following several side projects, the trip-hop pioneer continues to process loss and grief on the follow-up to 2020's Fall to Pieces.”
