So, I was planning on reviewing the new Massive Attack record 'Heligoland', but after listening to it over and over again,Ii think the review would of consisted of one, not even a word really 'meh' it's alright, a few good songs on there but...well...meh...it's a bit dull. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.
Further music related stuff...off to see the Grizz at the Sage in Gateshead on 8th March, which will be nothing short of spectacular, then Idlewild at Fibbers on 16th April (12 years since their last gig there!) which I'm rather excited about, then the day after is Record Store Day which I'm also rather looking forward to, a number of yet unconfirmed acts are recording/releasing limited edition singles and/or ep's, which are only available in certain indie record shops, so...we're off to Leeds to visit Crash and Jumbo, and well, have a jolly nice day really. The following Sunday will no doubt have me indulging my burgeoning love for Vinyl further, as the Duchess is holding a record fair, and then, to top it all off, a week later, Minus The Bear's new album 'OMNI' is released, excited doesn't even come close! A new Deftones album two weeks later and judging from yesterdays free download 'Rocket Skates' we're in for a treat.
2010 has been a pretty good year so far, TV wise, new, improved Heroes, the second, much darker series of Being Human, which, unfortunately, comes to an end next week. And Glee. Hmmm...Glee, the name's a bit misleading, well, a lot misleading, there's very little a cappella stuff, (and that 'very little' amounts entirely to the programs score, not the actually songs being performed) which is what glee clubs do, the production on the vast majority of the songs is so overdone it makes the new Biffy Clyro album sound like a Moldy Peaches record, the lip syncing, oh, christ the lip syncing....
And Matthew Morrison, is there a whiter man on the planet? Every time he performs one of those modern hipperty-hop numbers, i find myself hiding behind my hands, occasionally fanning out my fingers to see if it's finished, much like an England game which has gone to penalties. But I don't seem to be able to stop watching it, thanks, almost entirely to Jane Lynch, who plays coach Sue Sylvester. Evil to her very core, she softened a little in the last episode, thankfully though, by the end of the episode normal service was resumed, as she threatened to buy Morrison's character a kitten, and then punch him in the face. Nice.
And that's that. For now.
Massive Attacks new album Heligoland is anything but dull in fact it has everything you would expect from Massive Attack for me every song works, they are understated but with a musically richness that works like drug giving you a musical high
ReplyDeleteeach to their own, but i must say, you sir, are a boob. Perhaps the drug you allude to was what caused you to think it's better than 'Third'?
ReplyDeleteMegafaun in August then?