Undeniably Massive Attack. Dark, cinematic, Brooding. It’s good to hear Daddy G on the track again. It sounds like they’ve been listening a lot to the Brainfeeder crew (particularly it has been pointed out – Nosaj Thing).
Zane Lowe premiered this on BBC Radio One last night (You can listen to it for 24 hours after broadcast here). It’s taken from a new EP out in October with an album to follow in February.
Splitting the atom // Massive Attack by risingson
The EP looks like this:
1. Splitting the Atom featuring 3D, Daddy G and Horace Andy
2. Pray For Rain featuring Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio)
3. Psyche ( Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid remix) featuring Martina Topley Bird
4. Bulletproof Love (Christoff Berg remix) featuring Guy Garvey (Elbow)
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At last ! New Track of my favorite Massive Attack 😉
Fair balls to rio ferdinand for joining massive attack, he was at nuthin with football.
where abouts on the show?
The tune is above for listening.
It’s a very interesting track. I still find it surreal that we’re getting our first new MA track since “Live With Me”, but thankfully it doesn’t disappoint. It has a nice minimalist quality that many musicians have done in recent months (Portishead, Depeche Mode, etc.) Hearing Horace and Daddy G again makes this so worthwhile if nothing else.
this is more like it ,finally a change of direction …….sounds amazing ,got a ghost town vibe goin on…………..the wild bunch are back 😎
I think the quality of the production and song arrangements are slowly dwindling with each subsequent release. They peaked at Mezzanine and that’s coming from a huge fan. Just seems they’ve lost a lot of passion for what they do. Might explain why it takes 5 years for every release.
simple, dark, deep, slow but not boring or sad.
i’ve got goose skin hearing this song and like it a lot.
oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck….. OH YEAH!
where is the track 🙁 (((
It’s been taken down by EMI.
New track here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p04-QCNFsYg
Pray For Rain and Psyche are masterpieces.
Listen carefully and you’ll love them.
psyche is killer ,martina was doing vocals for them on tour ,show in the olympia was unreal ,new album has a lot of hype to live up to going by the ep…..bring it on 🙂