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100th Window by: Massive Attack List Price: £6.99 CD-Charts Price: £5.48 You Save: £1.51 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724358123920 Label: Wild Bunch Manufacturer: Wild Bunch Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Wild Bunch Release Date: February 10, 2003 Studio: Wild Bunch Sales Rank: 1424 MPN: 81239 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: During the 1990s, Massive Attack were simply untouchable as the most groundbreaking British band for decades. Each of their three studio albums preceding 100th Window were pioneering masterpieces, with 1991's Blue Lines acclaimed as one of the best British albums of all time. Nowadays, Massive Attack aren't so much a "great band" as a "one-man-band", with Robert "3D" Del Naja the only member of the original trio on this album. 100th Window may be Massive Attack's fourth album (on paper, at least), but it's effectively Del Naja's solo debut. Ironically, 100th Window sounds as distinctly Massive Attack-like as any of its predecessors, except the low, slow raps of Daddy G and Mushroom have been replaced by the fragile voice of Sinead O'Connor. Put simply, 100th Window sounds eerily similar to 1998's Mezzanine; it's dark, broody, intense and, at times, quite uncomfortable, with the odd shimmering ray of light allowed to peep through Del Naja's murky nocturnal soundscapes. Occasionally it sounds like Clannad done in a dubwise style (check the impressive "A Prayer For England" or unlikely single "Special Cases"), at others like a late night trip through Bristol's run-down estates in the company of the Grim Reaper. With such an impressive back catalogue, 100th Window should have been something new, fresh and original, but as it is it's just another dose of Mezzanine's paranoid broodiness. Of course, 100th Window is still a very good record--no-one does darkness with quite the same warmth and murkiness as Massive Attack--but this isn't half the album it could have been. --Matt Anniss Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Not like any other album you've heardIn my opinion, this album is an absolute masterpiece. There are many things I like about it. The first is that there is no other album in the universe that is anything like it. The second is that the music is so captivating and quality, and the third is that it is best played loud! I'd like to apologise to my neighbours! This album demands to be listened to. Unlike some other reviews, I don't think this album is repetative, I think it's just the same style of music, like Kraftwerk, only it's nothing like Kraftwerk. It's also nothing like their other albums so it's nice to have a change. My favourite tracks are : -Futre proof -What your soul sings -Special cases -Butterfly caught ... Read More: Rating: - Worrying timesFor me, this album emphasizes the brewing uncertainty after 9/11. It seemed to capture these times with the invasion of Iraq, al-Qaedas televised terrorism and the total chaos of the world. With the sound turned down on the TV it was a perfect soundtrack for the News headlines as the US troops entered Baghdad with Sinead O'Connor giving a fragile delivery on Special Cases prompting us to 'take a look around the world, you see such mad things happening'. The mood continues on Butterfly Caught with Del Naja's fractured vocals, swirling indian style strings and clostraphobic, almost industrial rythymn. The inlay photography lends itself to the mood of the album showing ice-like figures being blown apart, glass body parts in a cold, almost clinical ... Read More: Rating: - Bleak, eerie and hauntingThis must be one of the most distinctive CD's of recent years, with an overwhelming feel of urban alienation prevalent on most tracks. My favourites are the first three, particularly 'Everywhen' with it's characteristic echoing piano-like repeated note and equally echo-laden vocal line. Some of the remainder of the album gets a bit repetitve but my favourite later track is 'Small time shot away' with its eerie hypnotic synthsesizer (I assume it's a synthesizer). Bleak and empty sounding - yes, but that's what makes it an affecting piece of work. Rating: - i turn a stone i find youreview by Goran Ristic i totally agree.. This album is amazing. but so many people seem to be inclined to compare it to previous massive attack. this ISNT about the band and it isnt about music you have already heard. it is brilliant in its own right. If you want to live in the past live there, but remember there's stuff happening now. and if you don't understand it, then don't stop others from enjoying it with your petty reviews. Buy the album. its atmospheric and has a lot of levels to it. Rating:  - MediocreThis album is a bit of a letdown. I mean, it's not awful, it's just utterly boring, and totally nondescript. Compared to the peerless Mezzanine, there isn't a single track on this album that comes close to matching it. In fact, I'd have to go back to their first album to find some second rate tracks that I would rate alongside some on 100th Window. Even then, at least Protection was pushing some boundaries and experimenting with different strands of music and production techniques, when it wasn't producing perfect track after perfect track. 100th Window feels like an afterthought all the way through. The feeling I have each time I played a track was of total disappointment. In previous albums, Massive Attack songs can start out different, ... Read More: |
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