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Massive Attack. Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja, Daddy G and Tricky. In 1991, they released their debut album, Blue Lines, which has been included on numerous ...
- Their Music Is Almost Impossible to Categorise Or Describe
- Not only That, But Each Album Is Significantly Different from The Last
- They’Ve Drawn Brilliant Work from A Dizzying Array of Collaborators
- They’Re Not from London, Or Any Other Huge City
- Protection Inspired No Protection...
- They Make Babies Kick in The Womb
Massive Attack don’t sound like anyone else. Yes, they form, or formed, part of a Bristol-based movement loosely known as trip-hop, but how exactly do you describe their sound? A mixture of rap, funk, jazz, dub reggae? Nah, that’s way too prosaic. Incredibly dense and murky, almost brutally heavy, but at the same time dreamy and feather-light, and ...
Trace a sonic progression from Blue Lines through Protection, Mezzanine and 100th Window up to the most recent, Heligoland – and you’ll find that there really is no progression. It’s all so fluid, mutable, ever-surprising. Pray for Rain from Heligoland:
Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn, Horace Andy, Guy Garvey, Hope Sandoval, Damon Albarn, Elizabeth Fraser, Sinead O’Connor, Martina Topley-Bird and others. And it doesn’t feel forced or “ooh look at all our celebrity friends”. These collaborations serve the music, always. Here's Special Cases with Sinead O'Connor:
Perhaps that’s why they’re so good, and so unusual; you get room to breathe, artistically, outside the major conurbations. (And no wonder so much of the London and Manchester-centred Britpop was so lumpen, conformist and unimaginative.) See also: Dorset’s one-of-a-kind PJ Harvey, or the mighty Suede, who may sing about London but mostly hail from s...
...wherein the Mad Professor remixed the album, or rather deconstructed and reassembled it, with fantastic results.
Swear to God – tiny embryonic music fans just love those floaty vocals and deep, deeeeep heartbeat basslines. The beats on Angel even sounded like a pulse, muffled but clearly reverberating through the amniotic sea. (Narcotic, amniotic – yeah. Maybe that’s the best description.)
Aug 19, 2024 · The show will be marking the culmination of 25 years of climate activism on the part of Massive Attack and a first physical fruition of their collaboration with climate scientists and analysts from the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, including Massive Attack’s commissioning of the only Paris 1.5 compatible roadmap for decarbonisation of the live music sector.
Feb 6, 2023 · Massive Attack were becoming more the avant-garde artists they always sought to be, and their moment of mass appeal had crested.” The music of 100th Window was as uncompromising as Del Naja’s ...
Feb 26, 2023 · Before Massive Attack gradually slipped toward the intensely atmospheric and gloomy realms of Mezzanine, Blue Lines held some upbeat gems that most obviously channelled early rap and reggae influences. Tracks like ‘Be Thankful For What You’ve Got’, ‘Hymn of the Big Wheel’ and ‘Daydreaming’ carry a distinctive positive energy that is lacking throughout the subsequent releases.
Massive Attack were the first band globally to become members of the UN Race to Zero programme – committing all of their touring & production activities to Paris 1.5 compatible decarbonisation measures, in all scopes 1, 2 and 3 – and the band have now worked together with partners UN Race To Zero, Zenobe, Ecotricity,Train Hugger and Act 1.5 to construct a unique event.
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Dec 28, 2013 · Mezzanine is Massive Attack’s most polyglot album – the natural product of the band’s too-many-cooks “collective” practice, multiracial background and broad pool of influences.
