TRICKY False Idols

FALSE IDOLS/IK7)

RECORD company spin suggests every Tricky album has been a ‘‘return to form’’ since the boy wonder’s five-star debut

Maxinquaye.

Since then he’s made a timeless torch song with PJ Harvey ( Broken Homes) and done some gritty work on 2008’s Knowle

West Boy, but we can’t just forgive him for collaborating with Alanis freaking Morissette (unironically) on the Blowback album. Album number 10 is indeed that elusive

R.T.F: the red-eyed Rizla-fiend distills a bunch of sharp trip-hop ideas into 15 remarkably cohesive songs.

Starting off in strung-out, veiny 4am territory, Somebody’s Sins recaptures glimpses of the muted sexual escapades of the Martine days, and when the killer riff on

Parenthesis kicks in, you think ‘‘Hey Tricky, where you been guv?’’