100th window

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100th window
Massive Attack studio album

Publication
(s)

February 10, 2003

Label (s) Virgin Records

Genre (s)

Trip-hop , electronica

Title (number)

10

running time

73:52 min

production

Neil Davidge , Robert Del Naja

chronology
Mezzanine
( 1998 ) 		100th window Heligoland
( 2010 )

100th Window is the fourth studio album by the British band Massive Attack . The album contains nine tracks plus a hidden title and was released in 2003, five years after the previous studio album Mezzanine . 100th Window reached the top position of the English album charts in 2003, as Massive Attack's second album after Mezzanine . In Germany, the album reached number 3 in the album charts, and in the US Billboard 200, the highest position 69.

occupation

Robert Del Naja , founding member of Massive Attack, and producer Neil Davidge are responsible for the follow-up album to the successful record Mezzanine . Grantley Marshall , the band's second remaining founder, did not take part in the creation of 100th Window , but rejoined Massive Attack on the following album tour. The production is largely shaped by Del Naja, who had already determined the creative direction of Massive Attack at Mezzanine .

Various guest musicians are represented on 100th Window , including Damon Albarn , Horace Andy , who regularly appears on Massive Attack albums, and Sinéad O'Connor , who contributes vocals on a total of three tracks ( What Your Soul Sings , Special Cases , A Prayer for England ) .

Track list

  1. Future Proof - 5:37
  2. What Your Soul Sings - 6:37
  3. Everywhen - 7:37
  4. Special cases - 5:09
  5. Butterfly Caught - 7:37
  6. A Prayer for England - 5:44
  7. Small Time Shot Away - 7:57
  8. Name Taken - 7:47
  9. Antistar - 8:17
  10. LP4 ( Hidden Track ) - 11:23

The title Antistar expires after 8:17 minutes until an instrumental piece called LP4 starts as a hidden track at 8:50 minutes .

reception

From the platform Metacritic, 100th Window received a Metascore of 75 out of 100 points and an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10 points. The music magazine Rolling Stone awarded three out of five points, described an "Asian atmosphere" as the basic mood and assumed that fans of the band would not be particularly challenged. Der Spiegel ruled that Del Naja could not conjure up the great achievements of previous albums, 100th Window would still be a good production, but fans would find nothing surprising.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Billboard.com , accessed January 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ chartsurfer.de ( memento of July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 9, 2012.
  3. ^ Allmusic.com , accessed January 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ cd-kritik.de , accessed on January 9, 2012.
  5. ↑ faz.net , accessed January 9, 2011.
  6. ↑ plattentests.de , accessed on January 9, 2012.
  7. ↑ musik-sammler.de , accessed on January 9, 2012.
  8. ^ Metacritic.com , accessed January 9, 2012.
  9. ^ Rollingstone.com , accessed January 9, 2012.
  10. ↑ spiegel.de , accessed on January 9, 2012.