Tricky – 7th Level Music

Pioneering producer Tricky shares a new single “Thinking Of” and announces UK and European tour dates for next year (tickets are on sale now). “Thinking Of” is the captivating opening song of his forthcoming album Fall To Pieces, out September 4th via False Idols. As with debut single “Fall Please,” it demands repeat listens, drawing you in further with the unique signature that could still only ever be attributed to Tricky.

Listen to Tricky’s “Thinking Of” HERE

The track features Marta Złakowska on vocals – the singer he discovered during a Polish tour when he was left without a vocalist on the opening night: the local promoter suggested a girl who worked in a nearby bar, and when she arrived she had already learned the chorus to Tricky’s song “When We Die”. It sounds fortuitous – much like when Tricky encountered his original female vocalist Martina Topley-Bird by chance when she sang outside his front door. But of course he has an intuition too. “Yeah, I can tell when someone is humble and down to earth. Marta doesn’t care about being famous, she just wants to sing.”

Fall To Pieces was recorded in Tricky’s Berlin studio in late 2019. Tricky is keen to point out that the tracks on the record can be deceptive; often short, ending abruptly and moving on to the next without warning. Although instrumentation varies from bursts of tense synths, distorted dial tones, and samples, the song’s lyrics can be dark and dense.

Tricky might be over three decades deep into his music career but he’s currently on an especially prolific run. In the last year, he dropped the enchanting 20,20 EP and put out an acclaimed autobiography, Hell Is Round The Corner.
Watch Tricky’s Video for “Fall Please”

Pre-order Fall To Pieces

2021 Tour Dates
Feb. 2 – Copenhagen, DEN @ Hotel Cecil (SOLD OUT)
Feb. 3 – Oslo, NOR @ Parkteatret – TICKETS
Feb. 6 – Hamburg, GER @ Elbphilharmonie – TICKETS
Feb. 8 – Cologne, GER @ Gebäude 9 – TICKETS
Feb. 9 – Berlin, GER @ Metropol – TICKETS
Feb. 16 – Warsaw, POL @ Praga Centrum – TICKETS
Feb. 17 – Poznan, POL @ TAMA – TICKETS
Feb. 18 – Krakow, POL @ Kwadrat – TICKETS
Feb. 19 – Cluj-Napoca, ROM @ Form Space – TICKETS
Feb. 20 – Bucharest, ROM @ Quantic Club Outdoors – TICKETS
Feb. 23 – Belgrade, SER @ Dom Omladine – TICKETS
Feb. 24 – Zagreb, CROA @ Močvara – TICKETS
Feb. 26 – Budapest, HUNG @ A38 – TICKETS
Feb. 27 – Milan, ITA @ Magazzini Generali – TICKETS
March 1 – Amsterdam, NETH @ Paradiso – TICKETS
March 3 – Bordeaux, FRA @ Le Rocher De Palmer – TICKETS
March 9 – Paris, FRA @ Le Trianon – TICKETS
March 10 – Strasbourg, FRA @ La Laiterie (Club) – TICKETS
March 12 – Lyon, FRA @ Ninkasi Kafé – TICKETS
March 13 – Tourcoing, FRA @ Le Grand Mix – TICKETS
March 14 – Brussels, BEL @ Botanique Orangerie – TICKETS
March 16 – Manchester, UK @ 02 Ritz – TICKETS
March 17 – London, UK @ Electric Brixton – TICKETS
March 23 – Helsinki, FIN @ Ääniwalli – TICKETS
March 24 – St. Petersburg, Russia @ Kosmonavt – TICKETS
March 26 – Yekaterinburg, Russia @Fabrika – TICKETS
March 28 – Moscow, Russia @ GlavClub – TICKETS
March 29 – Minsk, Belarus @ Re:Public Club
March 30 – Kiev, Ukraine @ Atlas – TICKETS

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[Thanks to Brid at Pitch Perfect PR.]

ricky announces his 14th studio album, Fall To Pieces, out September 4th on his own label False Idols, and shares its lead single/video, “Fall Please.” The legendary producer might be over three decades deep into his music career but he’s currently on an especially prolific run. In the last year, he dropped the enchanting 20,20 EP and put out an acclaimed autobiography, Hell Is Round The Corner.

Watch Tricky’s Video for “Fall Please”

“Fall Please,” a song which Tricky likens to Washington, D.C. Go-go, has a strange and twisted accessibility that surprised even the man who wrote it. “With most of my stuff, there’s nothing else like it around,” he says. “But with ‘Fall Please’ I’ve managed to do something I’ve never been able to before, which is that everyone can feel it – even people who don’t know my music. It’s my version of pop music, the closest I’ve got to making pop.”

Fall To Pieces was recorded in Tricky’s Berlin studio in late 2019. Tricky is keen to point out that the tracks on the record can be deceptive; often short, ending abruptly and moving on to the next without warning. Although instrumentation varies from bursts of tense synths, distorted dial tones, and samples, the song’s lyrics can be dark and dense. Tricky’s music has always enlisted female vocalists to carry his ideas: the majority of tracks on Fall To Pieces, including “Fall Please,” rely on Marta Złakowska, the singer he discovered during a European tour when he was left without a vocalist on the opening night. She saved the tour from disaster. “I can tell when someone is humble and down to earth,” says Tricky. “Marta doesn’t care about being famous, she just wants to sing.”

The past year in creative flurry has no doubt been a distraction for Tricky, but it’s also been a period of reflection and reassessment. Struck down with grief, he had to ask himself a question: do I fight, or go down with the ship? “You’ve gotta fucking get up and fight,” he concludes. “Right now I’m in fight mode. And I feel really good. I do.”

Pre-order Fall To Pieces

Fall To Pieces Tracklist:
1.Thinking Of
2. Close Now
3. Running Off
4. I’m In The Doorway
5. Hate This Pain
6. Chills Me To The Bone
7. Fall Please
8. Take Me Shopping
9. Like a Stone
10. Throws Me Around
11. Vietnam

Keep your mind open.

[I’ll fall for you if you subscribe.]

[Thanks to Brid at Pitch Perfect PR.]

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Tricky releases new single, “Thinking Of,” from new album due this September.

Tricky asks us to “Fall Please” on his new single.