Tricky's seminal debut, Maxinquaye, was released 18 years ago, but he's been trying to escape it and what he decries as its "coffee-table album" status ever since. Finally, with this 10th album, he's returned to similar territory. It begins with a version of the Van Morrison track with which Patti Smith opens Horses – a slick, nightmarish Gloria retitled Somebody's Sins. I'm Ready, on which that familiar sprechgesang delivery is somehow both metronomic and distended, is exemplary, but the whole record – dosed with menace – sounds hungry.