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by: Massive Attack

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Average Rating: Rating: - Dark and brooding yet delightful. Owning all the previous Massive Attack albums I was awaiting this most recent instalment with great anticipation. In my opinion Massive Attack have, over the past decade, been honing and finely tuning their talents, extracting the finest moments of previous albums to make the next even more breathtaking. 100th Window appears to have benefited from exactly this, taking the most chilling and dark aspects of Mezzanine to produce their scariest album yet. This album has the 'inertia creeps' feel throughout with a hint of the east thrown in for good measure. There is no 'teardrop' equivalent on this album which some may find disappointing yet Sinead O'Conor's vocals adequately compensate for the loss of Liz Fraser's presence. The album also features what may be some of Horace Andy's best performances to date, with a welcome softer approach. In all, this deeply layered and lush addition to Massive Attacks collection of LPs is well worth a listen, whether you're a fan or not. Rating: - dead man walking The release of a Massive Attack CD is a major event. This fact you look no further than the back of the credits and witness arrows pointing to websites for the Red Cross, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Stop The War, Chinese News Digest, plus others dignify this troubled music for troubled times. Without the input and help from his former mates, Robert Del Naja turns inward to produce one of the most errie soundtracks of our lives to date. This music is a dark, brooding, and subterranean blueprint for a misanthropic culture on the verge of explosion. Ably assisted by Neil Davidge on programming & keyboards, plus Sinead O'Connor and Horace Andy on vocals, this army of four comes armed to the teeth with discordant chords, raw sound bytes, and tunes that bark and bite. Forget all the albums that came before this. Make no mistake, 100th Window is not pop music, rather the sound of a world spinning off its central axis, a tad askew - the beat of our lives today. A warning, a wake up call, and hints dropped, whatever - utilize as you wish, but do get the message. This album was not intended to be some groovy background club music, TV ad accompaniment, nor top of the pops. In serious times we require serious solutions. This one is at your fingertips and ear lobes. Submerge yourself and unsettle. Rating: - Was it worth the wait? Easily one of the most highly anticipated follow up releases in recent memory (Kid A notwithstanding), 100th Window certainly has a lot riding on it. After all, it's been five long years since Massive Attack released their now classic, Mezzanine, an album that was released with little fanfare (at least in the US) and quietly built speed via word of mouth as it crept and snaked it's way into our psyche while unearthing those darker elements of our consciousness (and sub-consciousness), like no other album before (or after) it. A bonafide masterpiece, for sure, but where could they go from there? Could they possibly raise the bar once again and outdo Mezzanine? The answer is a resounding yes...and no. 100th Window finds the group (now reduced in membership) exploring very similiar sonic terrority to Mezzanine, but Massive Attack are too smart and finite in their meticulous compositional skill to ever be accused of coasting. Their skill at creating hypnotic transient tones, at once haunting and beautiful but with a sprinkling of mounting tension and uneasiness, is a trademark uniquely their own, and IMO, their command of dynamics is unrivaled. But where all releases prior to Mezzanine occasionally trekked into this territory, it wasn't until Mezzanine that Massive Attack had perfected their style. So on the surface, it might appear that little has matured in 5 years, but to judge their music on a purely superficial surface level is to completely miss the point of their music and to do them a great injustice. Their music commands a certain investment of time and patience to allow it to sink in and get fully absorbed, so this is the antithesis of toe-tapping, disposable commerical pop of immediacy. For those willing to invest the time and immerse themselves completely, the rewards can be cathartic. 100th Window can be called an "upwardly lateral" progression, if you will, (not unlike the progression that took place within Radiohead and their anticipated releases thereafter OK Computer), which finds our heroes comfortably (not lazily) further honing and fine-tuning a musical style they pioneered and transcending far beyond the limited range of the Trip Hop movement they initially sparked. (I love you, Portishead, but I have little faith in your future ability to outgrow your own inner trappings). This is timeless music.

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