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Mon, 01 Sep 2008 Tricky things Over ten years ago while on a summer trip around England and Ireland, I thought I'd go and check out Bristol which at that time was supposed to be a happening spot - the likes of Massive Attack called Bristol home and there was reputed to be cool stuff happening. There wasn't. Not even a tiny bit. The venues were either for pyscho alkies of the ordinary kind or pyscho alkies of the student kind. In both kinds of places there wasn't much happening of interest musically. The lower town had trolling groups of racist piglets who had sport in telling Japanese tourists to F*ck off. The upper town near the University was a somewhat nicer place. Leaving aside the mystery of how some towns can get like this and others escape, the highlight of the visit was bumping into Kerstin who was from another place and passing through and who I'd met in Shrewsbury... and who couldn't shed any light on any of Bristol's mysteries. All that is by the way of introduction to Tricky's latest album, Knowle West Boy. Knowle West is a suburb of Bristol and is said to be not very nice, and not very nice in Bristol is actually fairly horrible ... and that is actually just the sort of thing you need for edgy, sharp statement if you can somehow survive the rest of it. Tricky certainly did and he's been putting out regular albums over the last decade while being mostly based in NYC and L.A. ... which probably annoyed some people but his tone has remained much the same. This release has some gas too - some of the tracks almost mini-operatic in their changes and flow but without the pretension that "mini-operatic" might suggest. There's lots of life here - problems, serene moments, frantic moments, although the serene tends to be a heartbeat or two rather than a settled-in mood. It's flawed as well in maybe a little too much trickiness (sorry) on tracks such as Council Estate, or the somewhat flat guitar bits but flaws are life too, and music too - wasn't that what we liked about Punk or some of the Indy stuff? All in all, it's worth checking out. (thunderfinger) [] permanent link