Vulnerable

1	Stay 3:49
2	Antimatter 2:59
3	Ice Pick 3:08
4	Car Crash 3:42
5	Dear God 3:47
6	How High 3:13
7	What Is Wrong 3:33
8	Hollow 4:10
9	Moody 3:21
10	Wait for God 4:02
11	Where I'm From 2:48
12	The Love Cats 2:52
13	Search, Search, Survive 3:07
14	Antimatter Enhanced Track / Mix
15	Receive Us Enhanced Track

Barnes & Noble

A decade-plus into a most idiosyncratic singer-songwriter career, Tricky seems to have gone through a complete transformation -- yet he hasn't changed at all. Poke around Vulnerable, the Bristol MC-cum-trip-hop-soothsayer's seventh album, and you'll find the same slow-motion toe-tapping dread that made '95's Maxinquaye an electronic pop record for the goth set (and a postmodern statement on the horror of chillout rooms). The gravelly speak-song delivery that's been Tricky's calling card remains intact (especially the way he slithers around vocal foils when covering XTC's "Dear God"). The shadowy tracks are still packed with buzz-saw skank guitars, skittery hip-hop beats, atonal keyboard and faux-horn bursts, and swamps of dub (the lurching opener, "Stay," combines these into one of the brightest pop moments of Tricky's career). And golden-piped Italian Costanza Francaville is on hand to play the angel-muse role Tricky has always required of costars. What's different is Tricky's attitude. After a run of fair-to-middling releases, his premillennial paranoia is finally balanced -- if not by tempo or melody, then surely by words. A slowed-down remake of the Cure's "Love Cats," on which he and Costanza enact a love on the run, and the hopeful "Search and Survive" ("I come in peace / Until the tensions release") indicate a bit of much-needed soothing taking place. As its title hints, Vulnerable shows a new side to this Tricky Kid. Piotr Orlov

New York Times

His strongest album in years. Kelefa Sanneh

Spin Magazine

This is the Trickster's best record in years. (B+)

Blender

[Tricky skips] effortlessly from hypnotic electronics to refracted torch songs to balls-out alt-rock. Andrew Harrison