massive attack : back! back!! back!!!

I think it's nice enough, but it hasn't got me all that exciting. Sure the new album will be interesting at least.

‘Gamorra’

eh...like a mixture between "camorra" and "Gomorra"

Lazy bastards. I'm sick and fucking tired of everybody taking five years to make a new album. Is it really that fucking hard to make fifty minutes of listenable music??

I remember Nel Naja giving an interview just after 1000th Window about how they were going to be a lot less precious about the next one and knock it out relatively quickly, ha ha.

They'll never make an album anybody likes more than Blue Lines, Protection or 100th Window again, so why worry about how long it takes them to produced another album you're going to complain isn't as good as the previous ones?

lol

i read the title as ordering massive attack to get away from you

theyre boring now arent they?

No thoughts on the new EP now it's out? Title track is an odd one, reminds me of nothing so much as a very sleepy Fun Boy Three. Kind of wish they would commit to either slathering on the bass/menace or making this the great ska track it could have been. Still, it's nice to hear Daddy G again.

The Tunde track is complete zzz, sadly.

I used to love Massive Attack. Downloaded this single when it leaked and haven't been tempted to expand it and listen. Probably won't. The business about getting Burial in to remix the album sounds great but will never happen. They should have asked Tricky to join the group. Neither of them have much of a career left anyway.

MA maybe a bit more than Tricky, though I suspect that's as much to do with inactivity-as-quality-control vs Tricky's relatively long satring of middling to atrocious LPs. But yeah, the new songs are kind of blandly pleasant, sort of "yup, that's Massive Attack all right." What worries me more than anything is the possibility of MA turning into recent Unkle.

Er, string. String of bad LPs.

MASSIVE ATTACK SET TO RELEASE 5TH STUDIO ALBUM HELIGOLAND ON VIRGIN RECORDS FEB. 9th


(Nov.24th, 2009 -New York, NY) – Legendary trip-hop duo Massive Attack are set to release their highly anticipated 5th studio album Heligoland on EMI’s Virgin Records on February 9th, 2010. Last month, the duo released their first new material in three years, giving fans a preview of Heligoland with a 4-song EP Splitting the Atom which features 2 album tracks and 2 album track remixes. Heligoland features an all star cast of guest vocals from Damon Albarn, Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, Guy Garvey and Tunde Adebimpe. Long time cohort Horace Andy makes a return alongside Massive Attack founding members Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grand Marshall (Daddy G). Damon also plays bass on ‘’Flat Of The Blade’ and keyboards on ‘Splitting The Atom’ while Portishead’s Adrian Utley plays guitar on ‘Saturday Come Slow’. The band also collaborated with DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy on selected tracks. The cover artwork features an original image by Robert Del Naja.

Over the last three years Robert Del Naja has written and produced soundtracks for a number of films and documentaries, including ‘Trouble In The Water’, ’44 Inch Chest’, ‘In Prison My Whole Life’ and ‘Gomorra’, the latter for which he won the David Di Donatello Award for Best Song. Earlier this year, Massive Attack won the Outstanding Contribution to British Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. In September, Massive Attack headlined this year’s Bestival ahead of their first full UK tour in three years. They have just announced a few more UK dates in February and are expected to announce a U.S. tour next year.

Tracklist:

1. "Pray For Rain (6:34)" (vocals: Tunde Adebimpe)
2. "Babel (2:56)" (vocals: Martina Topley-Bird)
3. "Splitting the Atom (5:18)" (vocals: 3D, Daddy G and Horace Andy)
4. "Girl I Love You (4:01)" (vocals: Horace Andy)
5. "Psyche (3:40)" (vocals: Martina Topley-Bird)
6. "Flat of the Blade (1:45)" (vocals: Guy Garvey)
7. "Paradise Circus (3:45)" (vocals: Hope Sandoval)
8. "Rush Minute (3:02)" (vocals: 3D)
9. "Saturday Comes Slow (4:17)" (vocals: Damon Albarn)
10. "Atlas Air (4:55)" (vocals: 3D)

(c&ped from wiki)

Pray For Rain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS8J_Oky5cw&feature=related

Pretty good. Nice beats.

Needs more Daddy G vocals :(

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ccho/Cards/history/Island%20Heligoland1.gif

Paradise Circus video = NSFW, video footage from The Devil In Miss Jones (1973) (and that's 73 year old ex porn actress Georgina Spelvin talking)

http://special.the-raft.com/massiveattackdvd/paradisecircus_full.swf

very good, but why does it stop in the middle?

It does? When I just watched it it was about 5 minutes long.

The SWF points to this FLV file, if you download that (and you have a media player that can play flv files) then that's 5:20 as well.

http://dnl.interoute.com/{33b366c0-e4bb-4ebd-9992-7d461739cf68}/{c29cc4e3-2b70-4db9-9971-76b1e9cc34b8}/paradiseHD.flv

(URL will probably not work because of the brackets, copy/paste the whole line into your download manager or browser or something)

OK I got it all now, thx. This is very good. On first listen (or view in this case) I like it better than either that other (awful) single or anything on 100th Window.

Anybody know if the actual song has the porno interview in it?

probably not, as the running time of the song appears to be 3:45 (scroll up a bit)

this is pretty bland on first listen

That's a fantastic video. On first listen, it's hard to work out what I'll think of the song without the visuals and voiceover.

http://www.the-fly.co.uk/words/features/6571/massive-attack-%27heligoland%27-//-first-listen

this is a useful rundown as i listen exclusively to radiohead records

i would like for this to not be boring

Prayer For Rain has grown on me a lot, I think it's excellent now. Other new tracks I've heard still slightly meh.

it's hard to care anymore but being as they were my favourite band in the world for a good few years (91-95 era) it's hard also not to hope there's still life on the old dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGMUn5RuspM

Oh, and Paradise Circus, album version without the pr0n grandma

http://www.emi.fi/jukebox/play/1359/paradise_circus

all the leaked tracks so far: http://www.myspace.com/massiveattackcollective

are any as good as this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BHG-OupoME

full album has leaked

thanks orson

Hearing the leak just now, sounding ok on first listen. Favorite collabs so far are Martina's and Horace Andy's.

Might be biased because I have a crush on her but Hope Sandoval's song is amazing.

I think there are a handful of pretty good songs on this one, and a few forgettable ones that are still warmer than that half-baked album earlier this decade.

are you talking about 100th window? that was the album which captured the apocalyptic spirit of the time, beginning of the iraq crusade, the stock markets on their lowest, best. listening to it on the earphones wandering around in the snow in the fields. that was a pretty frightening but stark experience. i doubt the new one will be as good but i would like to be refuted.

I'm not gonna go that far in praising 100th Window but yeah, that album was pretty great and I've never gotten why people hate it beyond maybe them not liking monochromism as a style for Massive Attack.

actually iirc it came out just before the iraq war which was in the air at the time. that made it even stronger. the oppressive atmosphere of that album anticipating the crusade.

100th Window was good at the time, but I've barely revisited it.

otm, me neither.

listened to the new one once. what a fucking boring album. at its best it's like a ham-fisted and ineffective revisiting of mezzanine, which itself still sounds both more exciting and more contemporary than heligoland

I don't think the new album is that bad, but I doubt I'm gonna revisit it in the future

I quite like it on first listen. I don't think it's that reminiscent of Mezzanine, it's lighter and trippier.

You'd think this would be a good time for a new Massive Attack album what with the current vogue for heavy doom-laden monochrome scowling in British dance music.

dubstep interregnum

Getting quite into this actually. Early faves: Pray For Rain, Girl I Love You, Psyche, Paradise Circus (those strings at the end!).

beep. beep. beep. beep beep, beep

you can do those yourself with your mouth

i was quite into 100th window at the time, i must have said that already. it was so oppressive. i remember listening to it on earplugs walking in the dark in the fields in the winter of 2003. for me it really captured the gloomy atmosphere when bush was just about to invade iraq.

okay who is Azekel and why have I never heard of him beore

He came onstage with them last week and sang it pretty much perfectly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0TZQTwwbk

Live With Me is very good as well. The videos for Live with Me and Paradise Circus show how utterly dour they can be though. It's like, how high are the stakes in your 5 minute weird-pop song that you had so make a video so gratuitously depressing?

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And again. They need to stop with this shit.

Yeah, this song isn't as good as either Live With Me or Paradise Circus on top of that. They put another new one with Topley-Bird on their vivo today sans video which is better.

New song with hope sandoval on vocals

https://youtu.be/4N1Q4W3Qd7w

Also a new onewith ghostpoet which I didn't like that much.

This one sounds like Bows and classic MA so it's great.

Oh I thought it was Martina on Spoils!

I might be alone in here but listening to the EP today again and the new songs and I think this might actually be the best they've sounded since Mezzanine. It has the same sort of creepy yet sexy vibe.

I wasn't 100% on board with 100th window or heligoland tho but I like the I dont know how to descibe it 'tar pitch' sounds they're doing nowadays.

A late-night drunken playing of "Spoils" has prompted a replaying of "recent" Massive Attack (by which I mean post-"Mezzanine"). Have enjoyed both "100th Window" and "Heligoland" more than I did at the time.

Has anyone really been paying circa £20 for the current singles?

people just stream and download stuff now, right?

time will vindicate my instant love/appreciation of post-Mezzanine Massive Attack

Heligoland didn't strike me at first but turned out to be their best after Mezzanine

Do we know when an album will be released, yet?

Almost tempted to spend £0.99 on The Spoils.

heligoland is super good. 'psyche' is like.. woah where did that come from.