'Knowle West Boy' was recorded in London and LA. It was initially recorded over a year ago in London. But I wasn't really happy with the writing. Some of it was just too generic. So I brought it back here to LA and rewrote everything. It’s totally self-produced apart from a couple of tracks that were co-produced by Switch. He definitely livened up 'Council Estate'. He’s a good guy.

Knowle West is where I was born. It's a white ghetto. I didn't know what racism was until I left. My family’s mixed race, so we don't see colour. I grew up on a council estate more as a white kid, but with Jamaican roots. But all of us there had something in common… we were poor.

I realised that I'd never written anything for these kind of people. I met a guy in Notting Hill who told me his songs had got him through being in prison. That’s amazing… but I’d never deliberately written anything for people like him, and me, and the people I grew up with.

- Tricky

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Puppy Toy
2. Bacative
3. Joesph
4. Veronica
5. C'Mon Baby
6. Council Estate
7. Past Mistake
8. Coalition
9. Cross To Bear
10. Slow
11. Baligaga
12. Far Away
13. School Gates