'Fall Please': Tricky’s first single from his 14th studio album, "Fall to Pieces"

“Fall Please” has just been released today, as the first single from Tricky’s 14th studio album:
 Fall to Pieces.

The album is due out September 4 via his label False Idols.

Tricky said in a statement that he likens 'Fall Please' to Washington D.C.’s Go-go: “It’s my version of pop music, the closest I’ve got to making pop.”

Tricky - 'Fall Please' - feat. Marta

'Fall Please' feat. Marta is taken from Fall To Pieces, the new album from Tricky out on 4 September on False Idols. You can pre-order it here: https://falseidols.lnk.to/FalltoPieces Video & Animations by Marta Kacprzak Tricky online: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TrickyOfficial/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KnowleWestboy Website: http://www.trickysite.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trickyofficial


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Earlier this year Tricky shared an EP named 20,20 - see here: http://melissa-on-the-road.blogspot.com/2020/02/tricky-2020.html 

He released his autobiography Hell Is Round The Corner last October, read my review in the TLS here:

Bristol Sounds

By Melissa Chemam

The rapper turned producer Adrian Thaws, more commonly known as Tricky, is considered one of the pioneers of “the Bristol sound”, a mix of hip-hop, soul vocals, punk ethos and electronic arrangements, pioneered in the city by Massive Attack. Tricky was an early collaborator of the band, and appeared on their debut album Blue Lines (1991); known for his fiery temperament, however, he soon decided to work solo. His first album Maxinquaye(1995) peaked at number three in the charts and launched a busy career.

In his autobiography Hell is Round the Corner – written with the music journalist Andrew Perry – Tricky tells stories of touring with PJ Harvey, of meeting with the likes of the reggae producer Chris Blackwell and David Bowie, and he writes candidly about his romantic and musical relationship with Björk. However, the focus of the book is his difficult childhood, and in general he shies away from discussing the trappings of fame. “I see artists who are chasing their dream”, he writes, “and obviously you have to work hard to get anywhere with music, but in all honesty, I never chased it … It just happened for me, so I almost feel a bit too lucky.”

At the age of four, after the suicide of his mixed-race mother, Maxine Quaye, he grew up with his aunt and grandmother and was separated from his Jamaican father, Roy, whom they unfairly blamed for Maxine’s death. Tricky was surrounded by uncles who spent time in prison for petty crimes and violence, and at seventeen he briefly went to prison himself. He realized it wasn’t for him. Music was his first passion, and it helped him escape what he called the “white ghetto” of home: Knowle West in south Bristol. He remembers the first notes of Billie Holiday he heard as a child, and writes of his love for the Specials, a multicultural, working-class, self-made band who represented to him for the first time a positive mixed-race Britain. “When I’d seen [them]”, he writes, “I was like, ‘Fuck, I could be a musician, because they are all like me’”. He is proud, he writes, that many black and working-class young people are now inspired by him in the same way.

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Fall to Pieces' track-list:

01 Thinking Of
02 Close Now
03 Running Off
04 I’m in the Doorway
05 Hate This Pain
06 Chills Me to the Bone
07 Fall Please
08 Take Me Shopping
09 Like a Stone
10 Throws Me Around