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Massive Attack live review – curiously flat for 3D | Musique Non Stop

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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Massive Attack live review – curiously flat for 3D

O2 Academy Brixton, London
Back with new songs, old friends and Young Fathers on vocals, Massive Attack still leave you craving melody

Stirring only every half-decade or so, Massive Attack tend to move at their own pace: unhurried, deliberate, wary. They have, however, just released an intriguing new four-track EP of collaborations, Ritual Spirit, with the promise of another EP and an album to come later this year. If you listen closely, you can hear the distant throb of a tectonic dubplate shifting slightly.

Ritual Spirit’s headline news is a song called Take It There. Despite the lack of a tune, it is cagey and whispered in the classic Massive mould, and features the wholly unexpected return of Tricky, the rapper who spun off acrimoniously from Massive Attack to become a troubled star in his own right.

Teardrop's crescendo climaxes in a blaze of light and a release of tension from the crowd

Related: Blue Lines: Massive Attack's blueprint for British pop 21 years on

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