ReviewTricky tussles with happiness on 13th album, Ununiform

Tricky
Ununiform
False Idols

Tricky’s 13th album is billed as “a journey into happiness and content­ment”, a description that sounds incongruous to anyone who knows the veteran British rapper/producer’s earlier work. Recorded in the Bristolian’s newly adopted home of Berlin, this is the first album created by trip-hop pioneer Adrian Thaws without monetary obligations. If this is the sound of Tricky at peace, we should be grateful we don’t share his head space – he’s hardly hanging out the bunting.