Incoming: Tricky’s Mixed Race for Oct.

"Temptation, reflection, mischief and misbehaviour": what's not to like?

By Blurt Staff

Tricky's ninth studio album, Mixed Race, arrives October 5^th on Domino Records - it is his second collection released through Domino after 2008's Knowle West Boy.

"Murder Weapon," will be album's debut single and is slated for release this fall. Tricky has given fans a chance to snag a sneak peak of the new song which can be heard HERE. The track is a reworking of the classic dancehall hit from Jamaican-born Echo Minott. After falling in love with the song, Tricky was determined to hear how it would sound with a female vocalist, in a similar fashion to his reworking of Black Steel with Martina Topley-Bird. Tricky here enrols Irish-Italian Frankey Riley, who has toured as Tricky's vocalist for two years and makes her recording debut on this album.

Recorded in Paris, where Tricky has been residing for the past two years, Mixed Race is takes influences from UK, Jamaican, US, North African and French music. He sets out on his music mantra with the album's lead off track, "Every Day," and then proceeds through a lyrical journey with temptation, reflection, mischief and misbehavior.

Tricky titled the album Mixed Race as being of mixed race is what he believes has been the single biggest influence on his music. He said of his new collection:

 "You sat down at the table in my house and you saw every color. It's made me much more open-minded than I could've been. I come from both worlds. I've been blessed because no-one can put my music in a box - it's not black, it's not white, it's not female, it's not male. I've spent my life going between cultures; Mixed Race is about that, and in a very direct way."

The album was produced by Tricky and features as always various guest singers and collaborators. Mixed Race introduces Irish-Italian Frankey Riley, as well as guest appearances from Jamaican singer Terry Lynn, Primal Scream front man Bobby Gillespie, lutist/vocalist Hakim Hamadouche, London-based vocalist Blackman and Tricky's brother Marlon Thaws, who is the thirteenth of his fourteen siblings.

Tracklisting:

Every Day                  

Kingston Logic                      

Early Bird                              

Ghetto Stars                           

Hakim

Come To Me

Murder Weapon

Time To Dance

Really Real

Bristol To London