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Music : 100th Window
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Rating: 
- Not like any other album you've heard
In 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
-A prayer for England
-Small time shot away (my favourite)
-Antistar
Wait a minute, that's most of them. It really is a fantastic album and I suggest it to everyone. 100% recommended.
Rating: - Worrying times
For 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 Kraftwerk-esque studio backdrop. There's not much light here to break up the darkness as on Mezzanine - each track is as dark as the other. Sinead O'Connor's gives us her most outstanding performance to-date to an almost desperate sounding plea on A Prayer For England. There's obviously some old Massive Attack style missing but that's not a bad thing. It's just different and a lot darker.
Rating:
- Bleak, eerie and haunting
This 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 you
review 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:
- Mediocre
This 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, and then radically change musical direction. I'm thinking in particular of Rising Sun on Mezzanine, which still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it. But almost every track on 100th Window lacks bite, and there is a total lack of imagination. They are not covering new ground here.
Perhaps I'm critical because it's Massive Attack, and they are capable of so much better. But my advice to anyone is to give this album a miss. It is totally forgettable, and there isn't anything on it that is in one of their previous albums - and was done better on them anyway. Buy Mezzanine, Protection and Blue Lines. Forget about 100th Window.
- 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
-A prayer for England
-Small time shot away (my favourite)
-Antistar
Wait a minute, that's most of them. It really is a fantastic album and I suggest it to everyone. 100% recommended.
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 Kraftwerk-esque studio backdrop. There's not much light here to break up the darkness as on Mezzanine - each track is as dark as the other. Sinead O'Connor's gives us her most outstanding performance to-date to an almost desperate sounding plea on A Prayer For England. There's obviously some old Massive Attack style missing but that's not a bad thing. It's just different and a lot darker.
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, and then radically change musical direction. I'm thinking in particular of Rising Sun on Mezzanine, which still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it. But almost every track on 100th Window lacks bite, and there is a total lack of imagination. They are not covering new ground here.
Perhaps I'm critical because it's Massive Attack, and they are capable of so much better. But my advice to anyone is to give this album a miss. It is totally forgettable, and there isn't anything on it that is in one of their previous albums - and was done better on them anyway. Buy Mezzanine, Protection and Blue Lines. Forget about 100th Window.