Album Review: Tricky - Adrian Thaws

Trip hop’s overlord follows up on last year’s False Idols with an album that slithers darkly. Adrian Thaws overflows with tense claustrophobic atmospheres redolent with asphyxiating fumes vaporised by the heat coming off some pretty hot and sweaty moves. A cast of sultry femme fatales keeps this album sizzling. Nneka’s bluesy is all sexed up on Keep Me In Your Shake while Francesca Belmonte could hit the dancefloors of Fangtasia or Titty Twister with Nicotine Love. You have to love Mykki Blanco when he spits, “For real man, you’re too fucking trendy,” if you catch Blanco’s drift.