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Under the Radar heads to Bognor Regis for Rockaway Beach on Friday. Here's who we're most excited to see!
Jan 03, 2022
By Jimi Arundell
The 2022 festival season starts this weekend with Rockaway Beach, so here’s the acts Under the Radar are most looking forward to seeing. More
Self-Titled Album Due Out October 22 via False Idols
Sep 08, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Lonely Guest (the project of trip hop legend Tricky) have announced the release of its self-titled debut album. The album, produced by Tricky, is a collaboration of many musicians, such as IDLES’ Joe Talbot, the late Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith, and it will be out on October 22 via False Idols. Its lead single, “On a Move,” which features London rapper Kway, has just been released. More
Fall to Pieces Out Now via False Idols
Sep 04, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Trip hop legend Tricky has released a new album, Fall to Pieces, today his own False Idols label. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More
Fall To Pieces Album Out September 4 via False Idols
Aug 25, 2020
By Jennifer Irving
Trip hop legend Tricky has shared another new single, “I’m In the Doorway,” from his upcoming record Fall to Pieces, out on his own False Idols label on September 4. The track features Danish singer Oh Land. Check out the video for the track and his 2021 tour dates below. More
Fall to Pieces Due Out September 4 via False Idols
Jul 28, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Trip hop legend Tricky is releasing his 14th studio album, Fall to Pieces, on September 4 via his own False Idols label. Now he has shared another song from it, “Thinking Of.” It features vocals from Polish singer Marta Złakowska. More
Fall to Pieces Due Out September 4 via False Idols
Jun 11, 2020
By Samantha Small
Trip hop legend Tricky had announced his 14th studio album, Fall to Pieces, and shared its lead single, “Fall Please,” via a video for the new song. More
20, 20 EP Due Out March 6 via False Idols
Feb 18, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky has announced a new EP, 20, 20, and shared its first single, “Lonely Dancer,” which features vocals from Berlin-based musician Anika. More
Test of Time Compilation Out Now via False Idols
Nov 26, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky has shared a video for “Make Me Wonder.” The song and video both feature Marta, Tricky’s touring vocalist. More
Tricky’s Test of Time Compilation Due Out August 30 via False Idols
Aug 16, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky has remixed British political punks IDLES, reworking “Colossus” from the band’s acclaimed 2018 album Joy as an Act of Resistance. The remix is featured on a new compilation on Tricky’s own False Idols label, Test of Time, featuring tracks handpicked by Tricky. More
Issue 62 Also Includes Interviews with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, King Krule, and Much More
Oct 20, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More
ununiform Due Out September 22 via False Idols/!K7
Aug 01, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky is releasing a new album, ununiform, on September 22 via False Idols/!K7. He previously shared its first single (and closing track), “When We Die,” which featured longtime collaborator Martina Topley-Bird. Now he has shared a video for “When We Die.” More
Plus A. Savage, Tricky, Zola Jesus, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 14, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
The first four singles from Arcade Fire‘s forthcoming new album, Everything Now, seem to have gotten a mixed response from fans, but we make no apologies for naming the album’s excellent and catchy first single, title track “Everything Now,” our #1 Song of the Week back on June 2. More
ununiform Due Out September 22 via False Idols/!K7
Jul 12, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky has announced a new album, ununiform, and shared its first single (and closing track), “When We Die,” which featured longtime collaborator Martina Topley-Bird. Ununiform is due out September 22 via False Idols/!K7. Below is “When We Die,” followed by the album’s tracklist. More
Ritual Spirit EP Out Now via Kobalt Label Services
Jan 28, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack have released a new EP, Ritual Spirit, and shared a video for its single “Take It There,” which features longtime collaborator Tricky. The EP also features collaborations with Roots Manuva, Azekel, and Young Fathers. The video was directed by Hiro Murai and stars Oscar-nominated actor John Hawkes, as he stumbles around a damp city at night, almost zombie like. More
Adrian Thaws Out Now via False Idols
Sep 24, 2014
By Cody Ray Shafer
Trip-hop icon Tricky has recruited The Walking Dead star Norman Reedus to co-star in his latest video, “Sun Down.” More
Shares New Track "Nicotine Love"
Jun 30, 2014
By Mike Hilleary
Following his 2013 album False Idols, trip-hop veteran Tricky has announced the upcoming release of his eleventh album Adrian Thaws. More
Sep 06, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky has premiered a self-directed music video for his False Idols highlight “Parenthesis.” More
Jun 19, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Trip hop artist Tricky has premiered a music video for his latest single “Hey Love.” More
Mar 29, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Trip-hop pioneer Tricky will soon release his tenth studio album False Idols on May 28. More
Interviews
Nov 15, 2017
By Lily Moayeri
Tricky looks like he’s carved out of teak wood, his visible body parts scribbled with tattoos. He cuts an incongruous figure in Berlin, his home of the last two years. Once he starts holding forth about his adopted city, however, it sounds like he’s getting paid by the Berlin tourist board. More
Aug 14, 2013
By Hays Davis
Three years after living in the U.S., Bristol, England native Tricky has developed a taste for the simple life in Paris. More
Reviews
Jan 16, 2022
By Jimi Arundell
Rockaway Beach launches the 2022 festival season in style! More
Sep 25, 2017
By Stephen Wyatt
Since 1996’s Pre-Millennium Tension, Adrian Thaw, aka Tricky, has unrightfully faded from the realm of influence, mapping a legacy that hides in poorly referenced and footnoted Wikipedia pages. Music and its fans are no less fickle today as they were then, and from the heavy reliance on journalistic labels, the Bristol-born artist finds himself as a relic of trip hop’s heralded history. More
Sep 11, 2014
By Sameer Rao
It would be easy to relegate this Bristol-bred emcee to a very compartmentalized and sometimes incorrect intellectual place—“trip hop,” “Bristol sound,” and “ex-Massive Attack” are silly buzzwords that try to draw some arbitrary (if momentarily helpful) links between Tricky‘s music and the specific cultural moment from which it came. More
Jun 13, 2013
By Dan Lucas
R.E.M., U2, Weezer… there is a huge list of artists who were consistently outstanding throughout most of the ‘90s (yes, Pop was great) but whose output declined into what can generously be described as patchy. By varying gradients their waning tended to be successive, slipping album-by-album. More