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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