Cloudspeakers

De opvolger van het inmiddels klassieke Mezzanine, uit 1998 alweer, kon eigenlijk alleen maar tegenvallen. En dat deed 100th Window in 2003 dan ook. De klasse en broeierigheid van songs als ‘Teardr... Read more

Oddly, twice over now, Massive Attack have reappeared after a lengthy gap between albums and affirm that, even though the trip-hop movement never really happened, this band proves that they were th... Read more

Ein starkes Comeback - dabei sind die qualitativen Hürden, die die Bristol-Crew stets überspringen muss, nicht gerade die niedrigsten. Massive Attack klingen nach sieben Jahren Albumpause immer n... Read more

Massive Attack were one of the pioneers of trip-hop, so any attempt of returning to their glory days has their fans salivating. Heligoland doesn't mark a full return to their earlier days but does ... Read more

Fatherhood, perfectionism, laziness: whatever the reason for Massive Attack’s seven year hiatus, there is no denying that Heligoland has been a long time coming. What with this rather extensive t... Read more

Back in the '90s, the long waits between Massive Attack records used to get chalked up to creative geniuses crafting their next masterpiece. Now, it seems more like a pair of aging musicians waitin... Read more

As trip-hop enters its third decade in existence, it drags along a trail of both detractors and promoters. With staples like Nightmares on Wax putting out mediocre (at best) attempts to relive past... Read more

Reduced to a sole founding member, Robert "3D" Del Naja, and with Sinead O'Connor in a starring chanteuse role, Massive Attack's spark of unpredictable creativity seemed to have been snuffed out wi... Read more

Massive Attack have a gift for translating the ominous tartness of tripped-out electro music — Ecstasy's teeth-grinding paranoia rather than carefree euphoria. Seven years after their texture... Read more

Echt omver blazen doet deze ‘Heligoland’ niet maar o, wat zijn we toch wel blij dat Daddy G en 3D de strijdbijl hebben begraven. Deze grondleggers van de trip-hop hebben immers nooit aa... Read more