Massive Attack - Splitting the Atom EP

So Massive Attack is finally coming out with a new album early next year but their new EP titled " Splitting the Atom" comes out October 5/2009

(info copied and pasted from pitchfork)

Bristol trip-hop originators Massive Attack have a new EP coming out on October 5 in the U.S. and the UK, on Virgin. The EP, called Splitting the Atom,will contain four new Massive Attack songs, two of them in remixedform. And all tracks feature a guest vocalist of some note. Given thatthe group has a stellar record of working with outside vocalists (LizFraser on

So: TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpewill lend his scorched-earth pipes to the new song "Pray for Rain",while reggae great and longtime collaborator Horace Andy will sing onthe title track, which premiered tonight on Zane Lowe's show on BBC Radio 1. And then, the remixes. Van Rivers & the Subliminal Kid will rework "Psyche", which features former Tricky muse Martina Topley-Bird. And Christoff Berg will have his way with "Bulletproof Love", which features Elbow's Guy Garvey.Massive Attack's next proper album, meanwhile, is expected early next year.

01 Splitting the Atom [ft. The 3D, Daddy G, and Horace Andy]

02 Pray for Rain [ft. Tunde Adebimpe]

03 Psyche [remix] [ft. Martina Topley Bird]

04 Bulletproof Love [remix] [ft. Guy Garvey]

The title track is sounding pretty nice, remind me a bit of Gorillaz

Edit - Sorry, I forgot to input the release date in the description.

Nice, where can we hear samples?

Yeah! Samples!

on that massiveattack.ie fansite there is a media player with the track "Splitting the Atom"

cool track...

http://pitchfork.com/news/36400-hear-massive-attacks-collaboration-with-tunde-from-tv-on-the-radio/

  On 9/4/2009 at 2:42 AM, jules said:

cool track...

 

 

http://pitchfork.com/news/36400-hear-massive-attacks-collaboration-with-tunde-from-tv-on-the-radio/

yeah i like it, bringing trip hop into 2010!

don't like that preview track one bit. and usually i like tvontheradio and massive attack. its a bit meh and maybe too upbeat

I like the break in Pray for Rain.

Now what the fuck is this Splitting the Atom shit?

massive attack and compression who wouldve thought lol. its very different and i dont know if i like it, i will wait for the album, maybe ill see things in perspective.

i reckon this sounds great so far, both tracks heard. admittedly more 'commercial' but still them on top form.

At least this video is comforting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvLsJY-X0w

So what do you reckon ?

I was a bit surprised at first but after a few listens i really dig it!

What do you guys think ?

btw you can listen to the whole thing

here

Hey Snarerush, there's already a topic about their new EP here:

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/48539-massive-attack-splitting-the-atom-ep/

So I'm going to merge this topic with the old one.

EDIT: Topics merged

  On 9/6/2009 at 11:10 AM, idrn said:

i reckon this sounds great so far, both tracks heard. admittedly more 'commercial' but still them on top form.

agreed. it's out now.

I'm not the biggest Massive fan but there was an interesting story in the irish times here about them. The 2 things I found most interesting were -

1. apparently they had an album ready last year, played all the material a bunch of times live, but then decided "yeah, fuck it:"

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According to del Naja, the fifth Massive Attack album was actually ready to roll last year. “We thought we had an album finished last year,” he insists. “We did Meltdown and then did another tour but when it came to the last shows, we felt we had already released the album. We’d sent it out there, we’d played it in front of X amount of people and it felt like we should start again.”

lol/wtf? I wonder if there are any bootlegs of these shows floating around...

2. apparently they're also ready and willing to take credit for the invention of dubstep:

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When I hear weird dubstep now, the slow, dark stuff especially, it sounds so much like some of our old demos from 10 years ago which we never released. All these dark, druggy, cinematic grooves – we’ve tons of that stuff which we never released.

Though there's no denying their influence, this comes off as a wee bit pretentious, no?

Full article here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2009/0925/1224255174496.html

They have had a big influence, listen to Teardrop and then listen to Burial, he stole the beat and sped it up for 'Prayer', although it's originally from 'Sometimes I Cry' by Les McCann.

they're on tour just now in the UK. I'm friendly with their bass player Winston Blissett, will see if I can find out about the dumped album...