¤ Summary:
It's been seven years since we heard anything from Bristol trip-hop afficionados Massive Attack. Their last outing was (for many) the underwhelming 100th Window, an album created mainly by Robert del Naja (aka 3D), as his partner-in-rhyme Daddy G was on hiatus being, well, a daddy. From the potent, claustrophobic opening track "Pray For Rain"--all tribal drums, bleak atmospheres and the contrastive rich vocals of TV On The Radio's Tumbe Adebimpe--it's clear that Heligoland is a bid for former glories. As the record unfurls through the angular, choppy post-punk of "Babel" (with Martina Topley-Bird), the lurching "Splitting The Atom" (featuring the familiar falsetto of regular Massive Attack vocalist Horace Andy) and the pounding, bass-heavy "Girl I Love You", the feeling grows that this is their strongest work since 1998?s Mezzanine. Unlike that album, the band make regular diversions here into dissonance, especially on "Flat Of The ...
¤ Blog News Articles:
Music Review: Massive Attack - Heligoland - Blogcritics Music
Heligoland lends itself to the eerier side of music which comes across especially in songs like "Rush Minute," "Atlas Air" and "Paradise Circus," which featured in the soundtracks of the TV series Misfits, Luther, True Blood and ...
Plug in Your Head: Massive Attack - Heligoland
Massive Attack - Heligoland. Article first published as Music Review: Massive Attack - Heligoland on Blogcritics. Massive Attack are widely referred to as the founders of the early '90s U.K. wave of music known as Trip-Hop.
Music Review: Massive Attack
Massive Attack - Heligoland Massive Attack are widely referred to as a founders of a early '90s U.K. call of song famous as Trip-Hop. They seem to compound together opposite aspects of several genres of music, including ...
Album Review: Massive Attack
So I'll cut the fluff and get straight to the music: Heligoland is both Massive Attack's In Rainbows and The Outsider at the same time. Marvelous in its encapsulation of everything the band has ever attempted but sub par in its ...
Music Review: Massive Attack
Music Review: Massive Attack - Heligoland Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 05:16 ...
