Tricky
Published 8:00 am Wednesday, December 15, 2010
As an artist perhaps unfairly pigeonholed by historical typecasting, Tricky remains frozen in time for many music fans who see him primarily as the man responsible for bringing trip-hop across the pond (initially in the context of Massive Attack and later in his wildly successful foray into solo work). Putting a time-stamp on your work using brilliant and zeitgeist-y titles such as 1996s Pre-Millennium Tension is truly a canonizing blessing and a questionable curse. Despite the release of new work (this years serviceable, but lackluster Mixed Race) the Englishman born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws resides in a perpetual twilight zone, albeit one that has influenced countless electronica acts since. With Truckasaurus. HANNAH LEVIN
Fri., Dec. 17, 8 p.m., 2010
