“At first glance, the lead track off Massive Attack’s new album “Heligoland” seems to have done the improbable and sucked the soul out of Tunde Adebimpe. The TV on the Radio vocalist cameos on “Pray for Rain,” where a dissonant piano rolls over jazzy drum fills, and Adebimpe gives maybe his most deadpan vocal performance ever. It’s a brooding number that threatens to tax one’s patience, until the clouds part into a beatific ending of falsetto harmonies, and the payoff is real and earned.”
That’s what August Brown of the LA Times had to say.
Not bad but not right —the trick on this album is the chick singer who always sounds good and if this is a little ho hum (I’m translating here) than the only album on earth worth listening to is The Monitor which isn’t even out yet
The LA Times ridiculous three star review for a really great dub heavy album beats me but that’s why they make money and I don’t.
My first take? A masterful piece of elctronica.