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August 10, 2004

Topley-Bird Takes Flight

Tricky vocalist releases long-awaited LP
April 22, 2003

Tricky Gets "Vulnerable"

Seventh album by U.K. electronica artist due in June
June 25, 2001

Tricky Leads New CDs

Reviews of "Blowback," "White Blood Cells" and more
February 13, 2001

Tricky Nabs Alanis, RHCP

Morissette, Chilis to guest on new Tricky album

Recordings and Reviews

Knowle West Boy

2008 is shaping up as the Year Bristol Bounced Back. Earlier this year, the city's trip-hop lords Portishead released the superb album Third. Now comes the first record in five years from Tricky, who helped codify the foreboding Bristol sound along with Portishead and Massive Attack in the...

2008 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Angels With Dirty Faces

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Biography

After squinting into the glare of nightlife notoriety for more than half a decade as an adjunct member of Bristol, England, beatmongers Massive Attack, Tricky took a deep huff and released his brilliant debut Maxinquaye, a long, distorted shadow of utopian '90s club culture that draws from the techno, hip-hop, and rock underground.

The soundtrack to a morning after in which the sun never rises,...

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