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