Massive Attack

[miaedu]

Almost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window, trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland, is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK). (Heligoland is "a small German archipelago in the North Sea," according to our friends at Wikipedia.)

The album features an enviable list of vocal contributors: Damon Albarn, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Elbow's Guy Garvey, Martina Topley-Bird, Hope Sandoval, and Horace Andy. Albarn also plays bass on the track "Flat of the Blade". The Adebimpe-featuring track "Pray for Rain" and the Andy-featuring "Splitting the Atom" were both featured on the recent Splitting the Atom EP.

The Bristol duo also tapped Portishead's Adrian Utley to play guitar on a track, and DFA's Tim Goldsworthy contributed here and there. As previously reported, a Heligoland remix album by none other than Burial is in the works as well.

Heligoland's ten tracks are listed in order below:

Heligoland:

01 Pray for Rain [ft.Tunde Adebimpe]
02 Babel [ft. Martina Topley-Bird]
03 Splitting The Atom [ft. Robert del Naja, Grant Marshall, and Horace Andy]
04 Girl I Love You [ft. Horace Andy]
05 Psyche [ft. Martina Topley-Bird]
06 Flat of the Blade [ft. Guy Garvey]
07 Paradise Circus [ft. Hope Sandoval]
08 Rush Minute [ft. Robert del Naja]
09 Saturday Come Slow [ft. Damon Albarn]
10 Atlas Air [ft. Robert del Naja]

http://pitchfork.com/news/37204-massive-attack-announce-new-album/

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMtWzDy_yd8[/ame]

 

[geloge]

Almost seven years after their full studio album, 2003's 100th Window, trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack are ready to release more dubby darkness into the world. Their fifth full-length, Heligoland, is out February 9 via Virgin in the U.S. (February 8 in the UK).

Good news

 

[Jayden]

I love massive attack.

 

[Royal Heart]

Sweet! This news right on the heals of Portishead announcing a new album, too! Hooray for remixes!

 

[Corny]

there i got all excited went to last.fm to check out some of the new tracks .. disappointed to find none .. check this thread again .. just to realize it's not out yet .. grr

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93UelQGyKs8[/ame]

 

[geloge]

It's going to bee a long wait

 

[miaedu]

It's going to bee a long wait

only if you wait for the "official" release.

 

[miaedu]

Paradise Circus [ft. Hope Sandoval]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgX64n3T7g[/ame]

Leaked yesterday.

 

[syntax]

Massive Attack has a long journey to become relevant to twenty ten.

This video/release doesn't make the distance.

 

[G-Lexington]

I got the "Splitting the Atom" single awhile back, and it literally made zero impression on me. I'm well aware that some of their songs are "growers" ("Tear Drop" took several plays before it clicked with me), so I gave it several listens. Nothing. There's nothing blatantly WRONG with it, other than the fact that it really didn't take hold.

Lex

 

[Drebin]

I only like one song by them, Teardrop and not because it's the theme song for House, but for the sampling of Les McCann's Sometimes I Cry.

 

[That70sJoe]

Lost track of them back in the 90's (Protection with Tracy Thorn). Are they still trip hop?

 

[ChickenGuy]

Two songs of theirs just transport me right back in my mind to the time of my life that I first heard them:

'Protection' - It was 1995 and I had just started properly listening to music, the year after I left school.



'Teardrop' - It was 1998 and I was in my last year of college, and not really making plans for my life.



Not only that, both videos are completely original and innovative.

 

[miaedu]

Massive Attack have released the Tim Goldsworthy remix to their latest single, "Pray For Rain" featuring TV on The Radio frontman, Tunde Adebimpe.

The remix offers a layer of pulsating rhythms with an undertone of tribal beats. But when the synths kick in, it's cadence is similar to the trickle of raindrops on your window sill.

Massive Attack's highly anticipated new record, Heligoland, drops February 9th via Virgin Records.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp6YBXAHavA[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

With less than a week till Heligoland hits the masses, Massive Attack are rewarding fans for their patience with the Heligoland Remix EP. Exclusively streaming on the band's Facebook Fan page, the EP features remixes by Gui Boratto, Breakage, Tim Goldsworthy, She Is Danger, Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi.

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Track List:
Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
Pray For Rain (Tim Goldsworthy Remix)
Fatalism (Ryuichi Sakamoto & Yukihiro Takahashi Remix)
Girl I Love You (She Is Danger Remix)
Paradise Circus (Breakage's Tight Rope Remix)
Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Dub)

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NoFY8mc0OA[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

Throughout the '90s, "trip-hop" was the best anyone could do to describe Massive Attack and the head-nodding family of talents it inspired, like Portishead and Tricky. But following the recent paths of those acts, Massive Attack's first effort in seven years pushes farther beyond its comfort zone. New album "Heligoland" pulls in guitars, pianos and more singers than MCs, often settling into a sound that's purposefully lo-fi. But the production duo of Robert Del Naja (3D) and Grand Marshall (Daddy G) hasn't lost its cinematic scope. The track "Paradise Circus" (featuring '90s ingénue Hope Sandoval) builds from hand claps and keyboards into a swell of sampled strings, while the shuffling drum pads on "Pray for Rain" (with TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe) provide the tense background for a down-the-rabbit-hole bridge with club-trance keys. It still warms the blood to hear those trip-hop synths roll on the slow-burning "Flat of the Blade" (with some acid loops thrown in for good measure), but Massive Attack's arsenal has expanded and the resulting onslaught is nothing short of brilliant.-Kerri Mason

http://www.billboard.com/#/new-releases/massive-attack-heliogland-1004065556.story

 

[miaedu]

http://massiveattack.com/

Massive Attack is less a band than a cloud of free-floating anxiety. Its members, Robert Del Naja (or 3D) and Grant Marshall (Daddy G), are pioneers of the trip-hop that emerged from clubs in Bristol, England, in the late 1980s. (A third founder, Andy Vowles, a k a Mushroom, left in 1999.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/arts/music/08choi.html?ref=music

Massive Attack worked like a reggae sound system and production team, collaborating with singers. The Bristol sound, from Massive Attack and associates like Soul II Soul and Tricky, was cavernous, shadowy and foreboding — not party music, but a premonition of the burned-out, dread-infused morning after. “Fish like little silver knives/Make the cuts on my inside,” Mr. Del Naja sings in “Atlas Air,” on its new album.

But Massive Attack evades trip-hop basics for most of the new “Heligoland,” its first studio album since 2003. (The title recalls a German archipelago in the North Sea.) The group has largely sworn off deep bass, making for its crispest, most transparent productions but losing a lot of atmospheric murk. Its sound is also less personalized than ever. Various tracks might be mistaken for Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails or TV on the Radio (with Tunde Adebimpe from that band taking lead vocals on the opening song, “Pray for Rain”).

What unites “Heligoland” is Massive Attack’s love of repetition, its way of transforming arrangements near the end of a song and its somber attitude about love and world affairs alike. Mr. Marshall’s deep voice talk-sings through the bitter “Splitting the Atom,” with observations like “The jobless return/the bankers have bailed”; unfortunately, it’s set to a mechanized music-hall beat that’s merely drab.

Guests draw more out of Massive Attack. The reggae singer Horace Andy, a regular with the band, croons about thwarted romance in “Girl I Love You” between an insistent double-time bass line and a wasp’s nest of horns. For Damon Albarn, from Blur, Massive Attack constructs a ravaged version of Britpop grandeur (via Radiohead) in “Saturday Come Slow” as he muses, “Do you love me?/Is there nothing there?”

“Flat of the Blade,” featuring Guy Garvey of Elbow, has looping, ratcheting electronics, hints of a dance beat, hummed vocal overdubs and a brass ensemble; it could be a Bjork production of Robert Wyatt. Martina Topley Bird, who sang with Tricky, appears in “Babel,” a skeletal rocker, and “Psyche,” with hypnotic arpeggios bouncing between stereo channels. Hope Sandoval, from Mazzy Star, whispers about love and sin in “Paradise Circus,” as the track evolves from minimal vibraphone and piano chords through a reggae vamp to a string-laden elegy.

“Heligoland” comes across as an anthology rather than an album. It’s a dour collection of concepts and strategies — some successful — as Massive Attack ponders what to do after trip-hop.