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Adrian Thaws is a vivid, attention-grabbing set of songs which roamfrom hip hop to house, jazz to blues, rock to reggae. It was recorded in Tricky’s home studio in London, where he’s living again after almost two decades in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, and features an international crew of collaborators: Francesca Belmonte, Nneka, Mykki Blanco, Bella Gotti, Tirzah, Blue Daisy and Oh Land. It’s designed to be played loud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I suppose this is my club\/hip hop album,” he says. “I’ve only heard my music a few times in a club but I grew up in clubs from when I was 14: blues parties, hip hop clubs, a few raves. 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It’s a delicate, storming, intricate album that sees Tricky take perhaps his most radical step yet – a journey into happiness and contentment. It’s a record that shows the legendary British producer confront his legacy, history, family – even death itself. And in all of this, he finds the strangest, least familiar thing – peace.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the first album-proper made since Tricky moved to Berlin, three years ago. While many people move to the clubbing capital of Europe to party, this was a clean break, in every sense of the word. “I like it here because I don't know anybody. I eat good food, I go for walks, I've got a bike. I’m trying to look after myself. I don’t drink here. Some people call it boring, but I wake at 9am and I'm asleep by 11 o’clock at night. I’m looking after myself.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThough most of ununiform was made in his adopted capital, four tracks were recorded in a city further east, the capital of Russia. “Moscow is my favourite city in the world,” he says. “I didn’t want to spend Christmas at home, so in December 2016 I spent three weeks there recording and eating Russian food.” The four tracks made in the dead of winter in Moscow feature collaborations with local\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erappers and producers. “I've been listening to Russian rap for 20 years. I love those accents, so I've always wanted a Russian rapper on my album.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rappers and producers he worked with are among the most famous and critically acclaimed in Russia. Among them is Scriptonite, who MCs on the knotty ‘Blood Of My Blood’ and ‘Same As It Ever Was’. Vasiliy Vakulenko, one of the country’s most popular rappers, made the beat for graceful, gaseous single ‘The Only Way’. Rapper Smoky Mo appears on digital rap workout ‘Bang Boogie’, a tune produced by Gazgolder, the owner of one of Russia’s best and biggest rap labels. All this without Tricky speaking Russian. “I don't need to understand what they’re rapping. I could just feel it. People live like everyday is their last day, and I like that.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough the album is more settled and at peace with life than any other that Tricky has recorded, it’s also one shot through with references to the end of life, from the raving, synth-led ‘Dark Days’ to the single ‘When We Die.’ “Word to the wise: I don't want to die young,” Tricky explains. “But my first memory was seeing my mother dead in her coffin in my family house. I'd go in, stand on the chair and look at her. So I’m saying to that kid on the chair, ‘it's going to be OK. You're going to tour the world, you're going to make music, and the good life is going to come in.’ If you don't accept death, you don't really accept life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTricky also credits much of the freedom of ununiform to something more grounded: “This album now is the first album I've made (in years) which isn’t going to pay off some kind of debt. So it's more relaxed!” Referring to his previous albums, False Idols, Adrian Thaws, and the Skilled Mechanics project, he says “I was doing these records thinking ‘the quicker I do this album, the quicker I pay off the tax people.’ So ununiform has been very chilled out. Now, I own the label, I pay for everything myself. I'm a truly independent artist. Now I do what I want. Freedom is a beautiful thing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterestingly, the effect of this new-found financial freedom, and a newly healthy lifestyle, has led to Tricky turning back to his classic sound – perhaps the final frontier for such an inveterate experimentalist. “I've got nothing to prove now, and I'm comfortable with referencing myself.” Indeed, he’s since described lead single ‘The Only Way’ as “Hell is Round The Corner, Part 2”. This sensation is perhaps a response to a wave of artists referencing Tricky’s ‘90s records and his approach, from The xx to boundary-pushing London rappers Gaika and CASisDEAD, the latter of which Tricky recently collaborated with. “I've got a really wide audience. So I've got nothing to prove. I feel like sometimes it's OK to do it again.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this spirit of revisiting the past, ununiform also sees the return of previous collaborators Francsca Belamonte as well as former girlfriends Asia Argento and Martina Topley-Bird. ‘New Stole’ is a fresh take on ‘Stole’, a song from Italian singer Belmonte’s Tricky-produced and False Idols–released 2015 album Anima. Martina was the vocalist on Tricky’s era-defining debut album, Maxinquaye, released one month before their daughter was born, and featured on his follow-up albums Nearly God (1996), Pre-Millennium Tension (1996), and Angels with Dirty Faces (1998). Since this extraordinary streak of albums, their relationship has been less fruitful musically – this is the first time that they’ve worked together on a record since Tricky guested on Martina’s Mercury-nominated solo album Quixotic (2003). Yet Tricky is keen to stress that her vocal on the sumptuous ‘When We Die’ is less of an emotional reunion than it appears at first glance. Tricky stresses that though their musical collaboration elapsed over a decade ago, they’ve been in constant contact through raising their daughter. “This situation happened through actually having the time to do it. I said to Martina ‘it would be great if you were on the album,’ and it happened really naturally, with her sending her vocal in an email. My managers realise it's a big deal and that it would be to listeners, but it’s not to us”. With Asia Argento, the actress Tricky dated for a year in LA, and appears on the delicate, trembling and achingly beautiful ‘Wait For Signal’, it was a similarly relaxed affair: “it was really easy working with her because I knew her well and she'll try anything. If I said to her this song is really unfinished, it's not where I want it to be yet, but try something, she’d go for it. You've really got to be able to take a risk.” Yet Tricky is still eager to discover and collaborate with emerging talent. Enter female vocalists Terra Lopez (part of the group Rituals of Mine) who features on ‘Armor’, Mina Rosa who features on album highlight ‘Running Wild’, and Avalon Lurks who delivers the vocal on the cover of Hole’s 1994 song ‘Doll Parts’.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s one final emotional return that took place over the last three years – Tricky’s reconnection with his family’s history in Bristol’s soundsystem culture, and the discovery that his granddad was legendary (and the stupendously named) reggae DJ Tarzan The High Priest. Back in 1965, when the first wave of Afro-Caribbean immigrants were making their home in the port city of Bristol, Tarzan set up one of the city’s first soundsystems – a glorious if under-reported history that was uncovered through Bristol Soundsystem Culture, a landmark exhibition in Tricky’s hometown. “My granddad made a record and in those days it was a big thing. He was a well-known artist before I was born, and changed English music in ways we don’t even know.” Tricky’s tough family life has long been the subject of psychological speculation on the part of critics and fans – his mother killed herself when Tricky was four, and he was raised in a series of foster homes. But this revelation of a lost musical great in the family has transformed Tricky’s life. “I reconnected with my father’s side of the family during the recording of this album, and in a way, the fact that I'm coming from good lineage made me feel good coming into this album. I’m from a line of kings. 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But as he’s keen to make clear: this ain’t no Tricky album. Rather it’s a thrilling meeting of musical mavericks, with the likes of Lee “Scratch” Perry and Idles’ Joe Talbot all pitting their unique approaches to songwriting against Tricky’s otherworldly production. From an unsettling tale of isolation courtesy of Maxïmo Park’s Paul Smith ‘Christmas Trees’ to the grunge stylings of Marta’s ‘Move Me’, via the tense storytelling of London rapper Kway’s ‘On A Move’, these diverse statements come together as a bold artistic statement of their own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet incredibly none of this was planned. Tricky had been expecting to be on the road throughout 2020, promoting the stark-yet-beautiful songs from his mesmerising last solo record Fall To Pieces. 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Three years later came Fifteen Days, a collaborative album from the artist born Adrian Thaws and producer Mike Theis, under the name Theis Thaws. Then, last year, he and Marta released joint album, Out The Way. All of those projects came out via False Idols, the label he founded in 2013. You can’t say Tricky’s not been busy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Different When It’s Silent is the first Tricky album in six years with bad reason, too. In 2019 his daughter died suddenly. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To be honest with you, since my daughter died, I want to work,” Tricky begins, “I want to do stuff. But all the press, being on camera, everything just changed when she died. I've never been a pop star as such but: that made me even more want to go in the background.”\u003cbr\u003ePointing to Fall to Pieces, released the year after her passing, he says that “I was in pieces when I made that album. It was almost like I had to get that out of me. 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We'd have been playing football together, going to pubs together. Mitch goes to the same pubs I went to when I was growing up. His dad went to the same clubs I went to. It's all the same community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“So he was the right guy. He's not like an artist – he's like a Hengrover, a Knowle Wester,” he continues, referring to their respective and adjacent Bristol neighbourhoods. “Massive Attack, love all those guys,” Tricky goes on, referring, of course, to the crew he started out with. “But we were not from the same environment. So ’cause Mitch and me are from the same environment, that's what made it work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat, and Sanders’ stunning voice. He’s there, leaning in soulfully, over crunching guitar riffs, on the urgent “I’m Yours”. His eerie, pained falsetto floats over the electro throb of “Because I Don't Know”, singing, \"Can you feel my pain? Do you feel the same? Just let me know. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Making music is an opportunity for artists to bring someone along. I feel like that's part of the career. Back in the days, you always had artists bringing up other artists, not-so-known artists supporting on tour. 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Originally written for Marta’s album, Tricky reclaims the song with renewed energy.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Her vocals are mellow, different. And it's almost like punk, my vibe. I knew it had to be the last track. The only female vocal on the album, and it's the last track, and it's me talking about my daughter. It's a great way to end the album. And then I can move on to doing other things. There will always be lyrics about my daughter in my songs. But it won't be way so heavy. I can move on.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDifferent When It’s Silent, then: the first Tricky album in six years, for all the reasons, good and bad, in the world. And now?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Emotionally, I'm saying I'm ready to start my life again. I'm looking forward to touring. I want to record. I was emotionally paralysed. Now I'm moving again. And sonically, this lets people know: if you have your own sound, you'll never go out of fashion. 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