Massive Attack - 100th Window
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Artist: Massive AttackEdition: Music CD
Published: 2003
CD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Future Proof
- What Your Soul Sings
- Everywhen
- Special Cases
- Butterfly Caught
- A Prayer For England
- Small Time Shot Away
- Name Taken
- Antistar
Free Music Notes for 100th Window
Free Music Review: Massive Attack brings irresistable orchestrations
Hit: 4 Stars
I've seen many divided reviews about this album. People either praised "100th Window" or hated it. However, I still enjoy Massive Attack for their dark, brooding trip-hop beats, and "100th Window" is anything but boring.
It's true that "100th Window" features fewer beats and lacks the electric guitar edginess of "Mezzanine" and the disco/hip-hop styles of "Blue Lines." However, Massive Attack makes up for it in full with gorgeous string orchestrations.
"Special Cases" is one song that really gets me in the mood. I love O'Connor's singing, next to the minor key strings. Even though the lyrics in her other song, "What Your Soul Sings," is a little cheesy ("That tickle in your ear?"), it sounded more interesting than the lyrics to "Teardrop." In fact, this album almost feels like the O'Connor show, if it wasn't for Massive Attack's awesome orchestrations and trip-hop beats.
Massive Attack really hits the spot with the quick trip-hop song "Butterfly Caught," which mixes Middle Eastern samples with an upbeat beat. It's an awesome combination that DJ Shadow should have thought about using, before he did that weird switch to making too many collaborations with rappers.
While the songs on this album, such as "Small Time Shot Away" and "Name Taken," are more subdued, I appreciate that they aren't as intensely moody as they were in the album "Mezzanine." And while "Antistar" does get a little long, the Middle Eastern sounds are beautiful. The whole album feels like an electronic masterpiece, like Cornershop without the goofiness. It's a beautiful album, even if it wasn't like "Blue Lines" or "Mezzanine." I'm looking forward to the next album by Massive Attack.
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With dark shades of dub and songs that stretch with patient grace, 100th Window finds trip-hop legends Massive Attack seeping through your speakers with the same eerie intensity they mined on 1998's revelatory Mezzanine. The burden of high expectations has been a constant for this band since they released the classic Blue Lines in 1991. Under pressure to produce yet another record that changes the playing field of dance music, the collective has turned in a brooding, orchestral work that profits greatly from collaboration. The breathy, distinctive voice of Sinead O'Connor elevates a song like "What Your Soul Sings" into a deeply affecting, candlelit nocturne, while Horace Andy's stylized vocal washes through the string-laden "Name Taken." O'Connor also shines on "A Prayer for England," a remake of "Safe from Harm" off Lines, as her barely contained emotions artfully collide with Window's stark, distorted production. It may not turn the world upside down again, but Massive Attack retains the power to keep you transfixed and blissfully off-balance. --Matthew CookeAlternative Rock Music CDs
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