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Tricky featuring Marta - "Fall Please"

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Photo by Erik Weiss Like most people of a certain age, I went through an electronic phase in the late 1990's. Most of that music hasn't aged very well, but, for the most part, trip hop truly has. Tricky was one of my favorites back in the day, and it's thrilling that he's still making truly great music today. His latest single, "Fall Please," might be his most accessible yet. It sounds like it could have been released in 1998 or 2020 and equally sounds at home in either year. As with many of Tricky's songs, he doesn't contribute vocals. Those are handled by  Marta Złakowska , who he discovered on a European tour when he didn't have a singer for opening night. Tricky acknowledges the pop sensibilities on "Fall Please":  “ With most of my stuff, there’s nothing else like it around .  But with ‘Fall Please’ I’ve managed to do something I’ve never been able to before, which is that everyone can feel it - even people who don’t know my ...