Massive Attack 100th Window
Amazon France have a vinyl reissue of Massive Attack‘s fourth studio album 100th Window up for pre-order. The 2003 album is being reissued as a triple vinyl set. Metacritic Music Reviews, 100th Window by Massive Attack, The first of two planned 2003 releases for the far-from-prolific Bristol-based electronica collective sees. Listen free to Massive Attack – 100th Window (Future Proof, What Your Soul Sings and more). 9 tracks (62:29). Of Massive Attack's original core trio, the album.
. ' Released: 24 February 2003. ' Released: 16 June 2003 100th Window is the fourth studio album by English group. Of the band's original core trio, the album only features. Departed shortly after the release of, and refused to participate in the making of the record. Released in February 2003, 100th Window was written and produced by Del Naja and Neil Davidge, and features vocals from, and (performing as ).
It is the first album by the band that made no use of, and contains none of the or stylings of the or recordings. Contents. Background Work on the album started in early 2000 at the Christchurch Studios in. Massive Attack recruited (a band made up of ex-members of ) for the new album. In a November 2001 interview, Lupine Howl's lead singer Sean Cook described the sessions as 'very experimental.
That essentially consisted of kinda minimal loops and noises that were fed to our head phones from the computer up in the control room. Then we would have this sort of extended jam session playing along to them and they would do various things to do the loops. Sometimes they would drop out the loop, sometimes they would start processing it with effects and delays and stuff like that, to try and make it change in various ways and see what that would do in terms of our playing. They also had a strobe light in the live room, which they controlled from the control room. They would kind of put that on and speed it up to dictate the intensity and try to affect the way we played with the lighting.
It was a really good laugh; we got some good stuff. I mean, hours and hours of stuff, which they have taken back and cut up and arranged and done their things to.' In a 17 July 2002 posting to Massive Attack's forums Del Naja wrote that over the course of time, the band had become 'very unhappy with the shapes being formed', and that by the beginning of 2002 they had discarded most of the material that was written up to that point. As a result, Lupine Howl is not credited with any contributions to the final album. However, one song from those sessions, 'Nature of Threat', was later made available for download on Massive Attack's website. Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating 75/100 Review scores Source Rating C 5.1/10 7/10 Initial critical response to 100th Window was positive. At, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an score of 75, based on 25 reviews.
As of 2010, sales in the United States have exceeded 180,000 copies, according to. Track listing All tracks written by Robert '3D' Del Naja and Neil Davidge except tracks 2, 4 & 6 written by Del Naja/Davidge/O'Connor No. Title Length 1. 'Future Proof' (vocals by 3D) 5:37 2. 'What Your Soul Sings' (vocals by ) 6:37 3.
'Everywhen' (vocals by ) 7:37 4. ' (vocals by ) 5:09 5. ' (vocals by 3D) 7:33 6. 'A Prayer for England' (vocals by ) 5:44 7.
'Small Time Shot Away' (vocals by 3D, backing vocals by ) 7:57 8. 'Name Taken' (vocals by Horace Andy) 7:47 9. Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 15 February 2013. Mark Redfern (June 2002). Archived from on 12 November 2006. Retrieved 15 November 2006.
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A new album from is an event, even if only one-third of the original group is present for the festivities. Just the group's fourth album in more than a dozen years, marked the departure of (permanently, after artistic differences) and Daddy G (temporarily, to raise a family), leaving only one founding member, , to muddle along with arranger/producer (who made his debut on 1998's ). Though is mostly successful giving the people what they want - a follow-up to, one of the most compulsive listens of '90s electronica - it unfortunately comes as a sacrifice to the very thing that made so crucial to dance music: their never-ending progression to a radically different sound with each release. For better or worse, has the same crushingly oppressive productions, dark, spiralling basslines, and pile-driving beats instantly familiar to fans of.
Fortunately, it also has the same depth and point-perfect attention to detail, making for fascinating listening no matter whether the focus is the songs, the effects, or even the percussion lines. Jamaican crooner is back for a pair of tracks ('Everywhen,' 'Name Taken') that nearly equal his features on the last record, while makes her debut with three vocal features.
Unlike or (two muses from the past), 's voice lacks resonance and doesn't reward the close inspection that a production demands. Still, her songwriting is far superior and the slight quaver in her voice adds a much-needed personality to these songs. 'A Prayer for England' is a political protest that aligns itself perfectly with the group that coined its name as a satirical nod to military aggression.
Another feature for, 'What Your Soul Sings,' is the only song here that compares to the best has to offer, beginning with a harsh, claustrophobic atmosphere, but soon blossoming like a flower into a beautiful song led by her tremulous voice. In comparison, the four songs for are average at best, mere recyclings of the same ideas heard years earlier. That's satisfaction enough for those who kept near their stereo for years on end, but a disappointment to those expecting another masterpiece.
