Fall To Pieces was recorded in Tricky's Berlin studio in late 2019. Tricky is keen to point out that the tracks on the record can be deceptive; often short, ending abruptly and moving on to the next without warning. Although instrumentation varies from bursts of tense synths, distorted dial tones, and samples, the lyrics can be dark and dense. Tricky's music has always enlisted female vocalists to carry his ideas: the majority of the tracks on Fall To Pieces, including lead single "Fall Please," rely on Marta Złakowska, the singer he discovered during a European tour when he was left without a vocalist on the opening night. She saved the tour from disaster.

"I can tell when someone is humble and down to earth," he says. "Marta doesn't care about being famous, she just wants to sing." "Fall Please," a song which Tricky likens to Washington DC Go-go, has a strange and twisted accessibility that surprised even the man who wrote it. "With most of my stuff, there's nothing else like it around," Tricky notes. "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 music. It's my version of pop music, the closest I've got to making pop."