Thanks for reading The Feels ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (aka Tricky) is a figure perhaps, for now anyway, stuck in a certain place and time–the late 1990s. He has had a productive career as a musician, but in many ways his fifteen minutes consisted of a few narrow years when trip hop was the coolest sound on the planet (it could still be just that, even if the kids may be unaware). Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky (a member of Massive Attack initially). And in Tricky’s oeuvre “Christiansands” could be the pinnacle. There is just something so captivating and transgressive about his utterly destroyed voice burbling out of the morass of the world in counterpoint to Martina Topley-Bird’s haunting echo. Tricky defined a certain grainy trance aura, which sounds like an oxymoron–and it is. I had never heard anything like Tricky before and still haven’t.
Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Tricky's Christiansands--Master Your Language
Thanks for reading The Feels ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (aka Tricky) is a figure perhaps, for now anyway, stuck in a certain place and time–the late 1990s. He has had a productive career as a musician, but in many ways his fifteen minutes consisted of a few narrow years when trip hop was the coolest sound on the planet (it could still be just that, even if the kids may be unaware). Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky (a member of Massive Attack initially). And in Tricky’s oeuvre “Christiansands” could be the pinnacle. There is just something so captivating and transgressive about his utterly destroyed voice burbling out of the morass of the world in counterpoint to Martina Topley-Bird’s haunting echo. Tricky defined a certain grainy trance aura, which sounds like an oxymoron–and it is. I had never heard anything like Tricky before and still haven’t.