MASSIVE ATTACK walk the high wire of genius, indifferent to passing trends, impossibly cool. Their trippy and at times claustrophobic mix of genres includes funk, hip-hop, dub and jazz and is unfeasibly ahead of those who have tried to emulate it. In fact, it makes you wonder if the band's many imitators just threw up their hands in submission and gave up altogether. Classic tracks - and that's exactly what they are - include the colossal Unfinished Sympathy, which rightly claims a place in almost every chart of the 50 greatest songs of all time. It is possibly one of the most easily recognisable pieces in the history of dance music. They have also thrown in Protection, Safe From Harm and new track Live With Me which, in a typically cute piece of casting, features laid-back soul-jazz legend Terry Callier. Massive Attack are well on their way to becoming one of the truly definitive and iconic collectives in music history, and their greatest hits feels like its just the start. SJB
Article in 'The Sun' - 24th March, 2006.
Apologies for lack of quality, this was taken with a camera on Macro mode.
