Heligoland is the fifth regular studio album from Massive Attack, entitled after the German archipelago of the same name. The album comes seven years after the release of their previous non-soundtrack, standalone studio album, 100th Window.
Remarkably their first studio album since 2003’s ‘100th Window’, ‘Heligoland’ sees the duo - Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall return to form with a hole list of collaborators that shape this album into one of there strongest in years. Featuring vocalists like Elbow's Guy Garvey, TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, Martina Topley-Bird, Damon Albarn, and Hope Sandoval. Musiclly Portishead’s Adrian Utley and DFA’s Tim Goldsworthy also contribute. Back are the oppressive moods that you associate with more recent Massive Attack. The music is warmer, more grounded fully of dubby basslines and ominous breakbeats, haunting vocals, trippy electronics, even a sense of soul with tracks like Saturday comes Slow. A great piece of work, I have listened to the album as a hole several times now and it grows on me after every listen, but thats classic Massive Attack. itunes has released a special edition of the album with several bonus tracks which you can find below. Massive Attack will also be releasing a fallow up ep full of b-sides that were left of the final album later in the year. June I believe. The artwork, as with every Massive Attack album since No Protection, is a collaboration between Tom Hingston and Del Naja, this time based on Del Naja's paintings. The cover image has been banned on the London Underground, due to it being deemed by Transport For London to too closely resemble "street art".
Splitting The Atom
Psyche
Flat Of The Blade
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