{"product_id":"tricky-different-when-its-silent","title":"Tricky – Different When It’s Silent","description":"\u003cp\u003e(...) \u003cem\u003eDifferent When It’s Silent\u003c\/em\u003e is, no question, the best Tricky album since his groundbreaking 1995 debut. Tight, taut, focused, real, raw, rich, melodic, melancholic, defiant, textured, layered, provocative, grief-stricken, joy-bringing – this 15th studio album is Tricky’s musicianship at its confident, thrilling, no-one-else-sounds-like-this best. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderscoring that idea of a full-circle moment is the first line of the first track. The skeletal blues of “Still See Me There” opens with “make me want to die”. It’s a callback to “Makes Me Wanna Die”, a track from Pre-Millennium Tension, the 1996 third album that followed the same year’s Nearly God (on which Tricky was joined by Björk, Alison Moyet, Neneh Cherry, Terry Hall and more) and capped an incredible 21-month opening burst from the musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(...) Ideas, inspirations and collaborators came from all directions. There is an inspired cover of “Marinade” by Dope Lemon, the side-project of Angus Stone (“I fucking loved that song for years”), with largely new lyrics by Tricky. The track “Piano” features an opera singer. “Marinade” has a violinist and cellist. “So Cold” features drum’n’bass-adjacent production. The gnarly funk of “Frontier Town” foregrounds the vocals of Christian Pattemore from Forgotton Pharaohs, aka the guy who was driving McGee around Los Angeles one time. “Christian said something what made me piss myself laughing. I just thought he was a funny, interesting guy. And he said he does music. So I asked him to send me some of his stuff. He sent me that and I just redid the music.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs ever, Tricky is pulling talent and inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. That, he says with a shrug, is just how he’s always, instinctively done it. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.falseidols.org\/products\/tricky-different-when-its-silent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLabel\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind this slightly wandering album lies the deep focus of tragedy. Tricky’s daughter Mazy died in 2019; since then, the artist has said that he wants to work. Mazy’s presence, he recently explained, is “is all over” \u003cem\u003eDifferent When It’s Silent\u003c\/em\u003e. You can feel the terrible grief of a parent on songs like the brooding, burning “I’m Yours” and “I Still See Me There,” a 7\/8 crawl through a desert of pure sadness that opens with the line “make me want to die” (a familiar line from the Tricky songbook) and only gets more desolate. And if there’s nothing quite as strong as Fall to Pieces’ devastating “Hate This Pain,” then “Be Still in the Pain,” a tortured street-soul torch song that is all the more desperate for its incongruously upbeat drums, comes pretty close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its best, \u003cem\u003eDifferent When It’s Silent\u003c\/em\u003e is urgent, visceral, and robust, an act of catharsis that Tricky had to make. Perhaps inevitably, the record isn’t as vital to the listener as it feels like it is to Tricky—and probably never could be—but after the darkly desperate Fall to Pieces, Tricky’s punchy, punky album is further evidence of a career renaissance rooted in emotional power and musical exorcism. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/tricky-different-when-its-silent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePitchfork\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow three decades on from his groundbreaking debut ‘Maxinquaye’, you’d be forgiven for expecting Tricky to be slowing down. No such luck. On album fifteen — and that’s just under his own name — we get a taut, exhilarating dose of his unique nocturnal world. Here, the Bristol icon leans heavily into the post-punk sonics of his youth, with a shot of modern indie on highlights like ‘Paris Maybe’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDark, melodic and naturally quite sexy, ‘\u003cem\u003eDifferent When It’s Silent\u003c\/em\u003e’ finds Tricky at his most light-footed while still excelling at bringing the doom when needed. Central to the album is Bristol singer Mitch Sanders, who adds a little sugar to the gritty tone. As ever, he’s made an album that feels both fresh yet nostalgic. A quickshot reminder of his unique talent. — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.clashmusic.com\/reviews\/tricky-different-when-its-silent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eCLASH\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/39TwXOWMIvjv4kzErdhoOj?utm_source=generator\u0026amp;si=ec6596ee78da403a\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: False Idols\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Broken Beat, Drum n Bass, Downtempo, Trip Hop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: Downtempo\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"False Idols","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67891937411230,"sku":"4062548139396","price":60.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/files\/a1789291586_16.jpg?v=1793433836","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/tricky-different-when-its-silent","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}