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Tricky: Things That Go Bumpkin The Night

Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 9 November 1996

After his darker than dark period, West Country imp Tricky comes back from the other side with a new LP, Pre-Millennium Tension, proclaiming New York has resurrected his original, er, angelic self. But an air of cryptic chill still pervades the maestro's weed-fuelled world. Johnny Cigarettes takes the graveyard shift. 

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