Massive Attack

The eagerly-awaited new release from the Bristol groundbreakers is a marvel of full-scope production with a permeating sense of their typical claustrophobia. Although now shorn of some key members, guest vocalists Sinead O'Connor and Horace Andy give a voice to the madness.

With 1991's Blue Lines, the collective known as Massive Attack virtually invented the kind
of who-does-what? knob-twirling aggregation of sound makers, singers and programmers
that makes finding producer's credits so difficult and makes "electronica," whatever that is,
look so deceptively easy. In an era when other pop-electronic bands seem to settle for
matching breathy female vocals with a click track, Massive Attack always deliver... More >