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17 July 2026 – Tricky Breaks The Silence
By Editorial Team - July 17, 2026
Summary
Tricky releases 'Different When It's Silent', his first solo album in six years — a fourteen-track trip-hop record of whispered vocals, skeletal beats, and inhabited silence.
Key Facts
- Tricky releases 'Different When It's Silent', his first solo album in six years.
- The fourteen-track record reconnects with the dark, intimate trip-hop language of Maxinquaye.
- Features frequent collaborator Mitch Sanders throughout, with Marta on the closing track.
- Entities: Tricky, Different When It's Silent, Maxinquaye, Mitch Sanders, Marta, Out of Place
- Tags: tricky, different when its silent, trip-hop, maxinquaye, experimental
<a href="/tags/tricky">Tricky</a> releases 'Different When It's Silent', his first album under his own name in six years. The fourteen-track record reconnects with the dark, intimate and deliberately unstable sonic language that has defined his career since 'Maxinquaye', while carrying the weight of profound personal loss and the many side projects he has completed since his previous solo release.
Frequent collaborator Mitch Sanders appears throughout, with Marta joining the closing track 'Out of Place'. The album moves through whispered vocals, skeletal beats, bruised melody and spaces where silence becomes part of the arrangement rather than merely the absence of sound.
<a href="/tags/tricky">Tricky</a> has always understood that atmosphere can say more than a crowded mix. Here, every pause feels inhabited. 'Different When It's Silent' is direct without becoming simple and emotionally heavy without turning suffering into decoration. It is the work of an artist still investigating how darkness changes shape when given a rhythm.