Different When It’s Silent appears six years after the release of Fall to Pieces, the album Tricky made soon after the death of his daughter Mazy. Though he’s issued material through several collaborative side projects in the interim, it makes sense that this is the proper follow-up to Fall to Pieces, as it feels like an extension of that album’s outpouring of grief and occasional anger.
For most of the songs on the album, Tricky is joined by new collaborator Mitch Sanders, whose haunting falsetto floats above Tricky’s wounded, raspy whispers. Brooding opener “I Still See Me There” finds the two mourning together over a slow, obtuse rhythm, making for one of the album’s most striking, affecting moments. The two continue to ruminate on pain and loss…
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It would be all too easy to reach for cliché and cast Marta Złakowska as muse to the much older and more established Adrian Thaws, aka Tricky. He did, after all — to use another cliché — “pluck her from obscurity,” taking her from small-town hopeful working in bars to international stages in 2017. Ever since then, he has been on a creative hot streak, despite harrowing personal tragedy with the death of his daughter in 2019. But you only have to listen to their work together to understand that there’s way more to it than simple ideas like “artist and muse” or “mentor and protegé.” They’re now on their third-and-a-half album together (Out the Way and When it’s Going Wrong are credited to Marta as main artist with Tricky as producer; Fall to Pieces gets Tricky’s name but with…