Massive Attack News

Trip-hop veterans Massive Attack are set to follow up their recent Splitting the Atom EP with the fifth full-length album of their near two-decade career, entitled Heligoland .

Massive Attack pulled in some massive talent to lend vocals to its upcoming fifth studio album.

You know an album's going to be good when all your writers suddenly email you at once going 'Oh my god, have you heard this?!'. It happened last year with Wild Beasts and Noah And The Whale , and the first band of 2010 to disappear in a flurry of hastily mistyped missives are former Southend-sceners and Angular Records beaty post-punkers TNP.

Massive Attack will release its fifth album, Heligoland , on February 9 via Virgin.

A few years ago, the good folks at Rapster Records decided to share with the world some of the original tracks sampled by groovemasters Daft Punk.

HSL continues its touring relationship with legendary Bristol-based electronic/trip-hop collective Massive Attack, supplying all lighting equipment and crew to the current UK and European tour, working with lighting designer Robin Haddow.

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There is only one Massive Attack. While countless acts have tried to emulate, draw upon and even copy, no-one has managed to combine minimalist electro, rock and dub the way they do.

Bristol trip hop pioneers Massive Attack are working on their fifth album 'LP5', due to be released later this year.

Trip-hop's second renaissance may be in danger. While Massive Attack's Bristol contemporaries Portishead and Tricky brought the style roaring back to music's forefront with a pair of hum-dingers, Third and Knowle West Boy respectfully, it didn't seem too much to ask to bet on Massive Attack's return from dormancy to complete the trifecta.

It's over a decade since Massive Attack were at the cutting edge and today their dense, druggy beats and paranoid mutterings feel curiously weather-beaten and as distinctively 90s as Britpop and footage of Bill Clinton in the White House.

The Bristol trip-hop duo have asked dubstep's dark knight to rework several songs from their forthcoming album The next dubstep ... Burial is to work his dark mojo on Massive Attack's material.

Sometimes it's better to risk failure with a big, bold experiment than to stay with the comfortable and famliar.

The couple: Quinn, 33, and Melody, 33, Warnick The Warnicks bonded over a mutual love of gloomy Morrissey lyrics as freshmen in college in 1994.

Massive Attack were in awe of Damon Albarn when they asked him to collaborate on their forthcoming new album.

Daddy G has revealed that the group intend to enlist the Hyperdub producer to rework a full album of their material.

MASSIVE Attack reached the final leg of their UK tour at Swindona s Oasis this weekend, but there wasna t a teardrop to be seen.

The group plays qawali, a devotional form of Islamic music that they will perform here in a Christian church.

IT BEGAN with a pulsing red light to match the minimal digital throb of the music.