Tricky has spent much of his career shrugging off the trip-hop label, but on Different When It’s Silent he makes his distance explicit. The new album pushes guitars and bass to the front, building droning beats that owe more to rock and pop than to the Bristol scene he helped define.
The most conspicuous shift is the presence of vocalist Mitch Sanders. A fellow Bristol native with no ties to Massive Attack, Sanders delivers a light, Thom Yorke-like falsetto across most of the album
