Tricky
Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 24 June 1995
"I had this psychic drawing done," says Tricky, sucking greedily on the first of the four joints he's to consume in the next hour. Behind his smoke-wreathed head, the Cubist Alps of midtown Manhattan's skyscraperscape is visible through the hotel suite window.
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