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Like it or not, Tricky is already a legend. His smoked-out rasp marked some of the finest moments on Massive Attack’s instant classic Blue Lines. His solo debut Maxinquaye single-handedly created the ‘trip-hop’ genre, as a new tag was the only way blown minds could come to grips with the sounds and ideas found on that groundbreaking album. But of course, you can’t be such an original and nonconformist artist for too long – the masses (no matter how hip) simply can’t keep up. Somewhere after the abstract-to-the-point-of madness Nearly God album, Tricky disappeared into a cloud of smoke, sporadically releasing records to an ever-dwindling audience. Of course, he could care less. True artists are like that. Still, the fact that Vunerable finds Tricky actually facing the audience is something to celebrate. With the impossibly beautiful Costanza as his angelic foil, the album bristles with a new urgency, as tracks like "Car Crash" are among the most realized and breathtaking of his career. A sexily gothic take on the Cure’s "The Love Cats" shows he’s still a master of reinterpretation.