Marta & Tricky - Out The Way (2025)

You probably already know that Tricky (with Massive Attack and solo) has been one of the leading character in trip-hop music for more than thirty years now. And if you know Tricky you probably also know Marta's voice since she collaborated on many albums with him since his first solo, Maxinquaye in 1995. On Out The Way, the first album released with both their names, they prove they still got a great chemistry together and are as inspired as ever. If dark & dreamy electro/dub music is your thing, you'll feel at home and very pleased with Out The Way. Highly recommended! (but comes with a warning : highly addictive stuff!)

 

the BC page. 

 

Tricky - Ununiform (2017)

Tricky is a very versatile artist, touching and mixing different styles, different beats, blending rock and electro, using many different vocalist on his albums. On the same album you have tracks that can be very different and it's also different from one album to the other. The overall quality is very high but his career has many ups and downs. Lately it was about one good for one mediocre. Mixed race in 2010 was good, False Idols in 2013 is maybe its weakest, Adrian Thaws in 2014 is a good one, whereas Skilled Mechanics in 2016 wasn't very inspired. IS the new one Ununiform following the pattern? Yes hopefully it is and it is indeed a really good albums with few average tracks and some really strong ones. With his trademark dark and melancholic mood, the melodic female singing (the usuals Francesca Belmonte, Asia Argento, and even Martina Topley-Bird), the rappers (Scriptonite from Kazakhstan and Smoky Mo from Russia), well, it's another classic Tricky album, possibly the best since Blowback?

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