Massive Attack - Heligo Land

[crank]

kinda underwhelmed by this. esp. after the strong ep that came out. a bit gutted by this.

[spacejunk]

Well, after the first few listens I was unimpressed so I left it off the playlist for a few weeks. Fast forward to this week and I like it! Overall it's a good record but there is a distinct lack of flow. Also, I reckon they made a mistake releasing Christoff Berg's Remix of Bulletproof Love on the EP as it way outshines the album's Flat of the Blade.
7/10

[crank]

yeah, the remix ep seems to be shining brighter than the record.

[BrotherLovesDub]

I agree. I love Tim Goldsworthy (shame he left DFA, or did he? seems very confusing) and the boratto mix is up to his usual standards. overall a satisfying remix package. i tried to listen to the album again, thinking that maybe my previous download was the poorly encoded first leak but was unable to more than tolerate any one song. they're ok but they're doing nothing for the legacy of massive attack. i can't imagine what kind of absolute shit they'd put out if Tricky does end up guesting.

[unwound floors]

Had the chance to listen to this in full after my local record store put it out a few days early - the album as a whole initally didn't appeal to me at first, but now I've had the chance to listen to it in high-quality with some decent speakers it's really grown on me. I don't think anything Massive Attack will do in future could possibly top Mezzanine (moody, tense, thoughtful and overwhelming - one of my favourite albums of all time), but Heligoland is definitely a very solid record, thematically and sonically beautiful.

[Caprice]

Originally Posted by unwound floors

Had the chance to listen to this in full after my local record store put it out a few days early - the album as a whole initally didn't appeal to me at first, but now I've had the chance to listen to it in high-quality with some decent speakers it's really grown on me. I don't think anything Massive Attack will do in future could possibly top Mezzanine (moody, tense, thoughtful and overwhelming - one of my favourite albums of all time), but Heligoland is definitely a very solid record, thematically and sonically beautiful.

yea. after picking it up and putting it on my home stereo it has grown on me a lot. splitting the atom wasn't that good to me, then i watched the music video, shit....

[ndrwrld]

north american dates announced.
2 for Toronto !

[joethelion]

North American dates?!??!?!?!?!


WHEN/ WHERE????

I just went onto the MA forum, and the news page (didn't see anything)
and on ticketmaster, it just has three dates listed for San Francisco


[edit]

oh I see;

Massive Attack tour dates:
5/7, Toronto, ON (Sound Academy)
5/9, Toronto, ON (Sound Academy)
5/11, NYC, NY (Terminal 5)
5/12, NYC, NY (Terminal 5)
5/18, Los Angeles, CA (Wiltern Theater)
5/19, Los Angeles, CA (Wiltern Theater)
5/25, San Francisco, CA (Warfield Theater)
5/27, San Francisco, CA (Warfiled Theater)
5/30, George, WA Sasquatch Festival

Really not much of a tour is it? I mean - it's INSANE that they're not stopping in Chicago

[BrotherLovesDub]

who exactly makes up the Massive Attack touring group?

[joethelion]

well - when I saw them a couple of years back (on the Tour to support "Collected") it was 3D, Horace Andy, Elizabeth Fraser, and their tour band

(Daddy G wasn't there b/c he just recently had a kid)

I don't know who was in the touring band, but it was basically a normal "band set up" - guitar, bass, drums, keyboards

From what I've heard on bootlegs of recent shows, instead of Elizabeth, they've got Martina Topley-Bird, but other than that - it's pretty much the same (with Daddy G)