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Tricky

Stephen Dalton, The National, October 2010

THE GREAT LOST BOY of British music, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws has been on an exotic, erratic musical odyssey since he first added whispered raps and stuttering rhythms to Massive Attack's Blue Lines album in 1991.

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