Tricky Shares New Single / Album Out July 17th / North American Tour This Fall

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Shares new single, “Because I Don't Know” featuring Mitch Sanders

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New album, Different When It’s Silent, out July 17th via False Idols

Pre-order/save HERE

North American tour begins September 16th

Tickets available from all venues and on the Tricky website

 

Mitch Sanders photo: Steve Gullick

Tricky today shares his new single “Because I Don’t Know” featuring Mitch Sanders, the second track to be unveiled from his forthcoming album, Different When It’s Silent, released July 17th via False Idols. Pre-order/save here.

Built around a pulsing electronic rhythm and shadowy atmospherics, “Because I Don’t Know” highlights the spectral falsetto of Bristol singer Mitch Sanders, whose voice threads through much of the album. Over the track’s brooding electro throb, Sanders delivers the haunting refrain, “Can you feel my pain? Do you feel the same? Just let me know”, while Tricky’s murmured vocals lurk in the background, creating a tension between vulnerability and menace.

The song offers another glimpse into Different When It’s Silent, following "Out Of Place", the album’s first single, and a powerful closing moment on the record. Featuring longtime collaborator Marta Złakowska, the track pairs Marta’s restrained, atmospheric vocal with Tricky’s urgent, almost punk-like delivery, the contrast between the two creating a striking and dynamic finale.
 

Tricky photo: Steve Gullick

Different When It’s Silent is Tricky’s 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, since 2020’s Fall To Pieces. Recorded between his home in France and sessions in Bristol, the album reconnects with the distinctive sonic language that has defined Tricky’s work since his groundbreaking debut, Maxinquaye.

Despite the gap between albums, he has remained prolific. In the years since Fall To Pieces he has released music under several guises: the collaborative project Lonely Guest, the album Fifteen Days with producer Mike Theis under the name Theis Thaws, and 2025’s Out The Way with Marta Złakowska, all released through his own label, False Idols.

Returning to an album under his own name initially wasn’t the plan. “In my mind it was another side project” Tricky says of the material. But after hearing the songs, his manager Alan McGee was convinced otherwise. “Mate, this is a Tricky album. This is the best thing since Maxinquaye.”

Central to the record’s sound is the voice of Mitch Sanders, whose background mirrors Tricky’s own, their shared roots giving the album a sense of community. Across the album’s fourteen tracks, Tricky moves fluidly between skeletal blues, distorted guitars, stark hip-hop rhythms and electronics. “Because I Don’t Know” captures the record’s emotional core, a collision of reflection and restless experimentation, offering another glimpse of a record that reconnects him with the sound and instinct that made him one of the most distinctive voices in modern music - proof that artists who create their own language never go out of time.

Different When It’s Silent is released July 17th via False Idols. Pre-order/save here. 

Tracklist:

Still See Me There

I’m Yours

Be Still In Your Pain

I Tried

So Cold

Paris Maybe

Cannon Fodder

Because I Don’t Know

Marinade 

Radana

Piano

Frontier Town

Hengrove Blues
Out Of Place

 

Following a UK tour which saw Tricky play to packed crowds in London, Manchester, and Bristol, he continues his dates in Europe, before returning to the UK for festivals this summer, and then embarking on his first North American tour since 2018, beginning September 16th. Tickets are available from all venues and on the Tricky website.

 

See below for all live shows.

 

May 

23rd - Bydgoszcz, Poland - Drums Fusion Festival

24th - Brussels, Belgium - Ancienne Belgique

25th - Paris, France - Trianon

26th - Lyon, France  - Radiant

28th - Antwerp, Belgium - De Roma 

29th - Nijmegen, The Netherlands - Doornroosje

30th - Maastricht, The Netherlands - Muziekgieterij

 

June

1st - Den Haag, The Netherlands - Paard

3rd - Groningen, The Netherlands - De Oosterpoort

4th - Berlin, Germany - Huxleys

5th - Warsaw, Poland - Progresja

7th - Prague, Czechia - Meet Factory

8th - Vienna, Austria - Wuk

9th - Budapest, Hungary - A38 Ship

11th - Bucharest, Romania - Quantic Pub

12th - Sofia, Bulgaria - FOMO the club

13th - Zagreb, Croatia - Boogaloo

14th - Zurich, Switzerland - Kaufleuten

16th - Bern, Switzerland - Bierhübeli

18th - Hamburg, Germany - Mojo Club

20th - Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega

24th - Cologne, Germany - Kantine

26th - Malmö, Sweden - Slagthuset

27th - Uppsala, Sweden - Parksnäckan

28th - Gothenburg, Sweden - Filmstudion

 

July

4th - Amarante, Portugal - Mimo Festival

9th - Milan, Italy - Triennale (Palace Of Art)

 

August

23rd - Brecon Beacons, UK - Green Man Festival

29th - Bristol, UK - Forwards Festival

 

September 

2nd - Vilnius, Lithuania - Kably's

3rd - Riga, Latvia - Spelet Concert Hall

4th - Narva, Estonia - Station Narva Festival

16th - Detroit, MI - El Club
20th - Dallas, TX - Trees
21st - Austin, TX - Mohawk
23rd - Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
24th - Los Angeles, CA - The Bellwether
28th - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom
29th - Vancouver, B.C - Hollywood Theatre
30th - Seattle,WA - Neumos

October
2nd - Salt Lake City, UT - Commonwealth
4th - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
6th - Minneapolis, MN - FIne Line
8th - Toronto, ON - Danforth Music Hall
9th - Montreal, QC - Le Studio TD
11th - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel
12th - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
13th - Washington, D.C - Lincoln Theatre
15th - Atlanta, GA.- The Loft at Center Stage

16th - 17th - Miami, FL - III Points Festival

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