Massive Attack - 100th Window
Since Mezzanine there's been a kind of void that only Massive Attack could hope to fill. Nobody else ever came close to filling it, not for want of trying, and for a while there I thought even Massive Attack would be hard pressed to go where only they are capable of going.
Then came 100th Window, several years in the making and minus a couple of band members, and the groove continues.
I don't particularly miss Mushroom or Daddy G, the latter on temporary leave, but I did kind of miss Elizabeth Fraser until Sinead O'Connor really started growing on me. Without being aware who it was at first I thought some great new talent had been discovered, then it dawned on me, and Horace Andy is a gem that makes it all glow. His contributions, although minimal in time spent actually singing, make the whole all the more memorable.
So Robert Del Naja, with co-producer Neil Davidge, pulled it all together as far as we are concerned, a complete and uniquely rewarding experience. A real void filler.
Rating: 912,947 (out of a possible 1,000,000)
