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

I love Mezzanine from start to finish!

Mezzanine also has the terrible Dissolved Girl. One of those albums where the astonishing half so thoroughly eclipses the ho-hum half that it elevates the whole thing to greatness.

― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, February 8, 2016 12:45 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get out

anyway I mentioned this elsewhere but this remix from heligoland is great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC7P0zlp67I

'Man Next Door' is one of my absolute favourites on the record, great use of that Cure sample.

i like heligoland a lot
I like the songs on the ep too

clicked on that youtube link thinking it was going to be the gui boratto remix that was everywhere

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?

It's remarkable that Massive Attack have thrived as long as they have considering that the people who wrote most of their best songs are no longer with the band. 3D's a vibes and vision guy, not a melody writer, and God knows what Daddy G does.

They should have invited Hope Sandoval for more songs, Paradise Circus overstays its welcome for a minute but its the best song they've made since Mezzanine. Hell they should invite her for one or two songs every record like they invite Horace Andy, she is also a perfect fit for them.

I also have no idea what Mushroom or Daddy G specifically added but you can tell they were missing in 100th Window. I guess Daddy G is the most 'dj' of them so he mainly contributes with choosing samples? Their previous albums had some smooth sexy vibes and 100th window is missing them, stripped from those vibes their sound is just cold and uninviting. It could be the lack of samples on that album.

wish I still had the promo version of 100th Window that had extra beeps at the beginning of the first track

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?

― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Tuesday, February 9, 2016 12:56 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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.