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| ![Heligoland [+digital booklet]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QGx-0sFvL._SL500_.jpg) | Artist: Massive Attack
Label: Virgin UK
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: £5.99
as of 30/7/2010 14:44 BST details
Seller: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 1829
Genre: pop-music
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 3178 Minutes
ASIN: B0035RN3RC
Publication Date: February 9, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Quality reigns February 11, 2010
6th.replicant (London, UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A slow burner that from the 2nd listen onwards gets better with each play. Multi-layered & multi-textural, never dull or predictable, full of underlying energy & passion - IMHO this a beautifully crafted album, on all levels.
Has that distinctive quality that is pure Massive Attack, yet still manages to sound fresh & inventive. Heligoland was obviously meticulously conceived & executed, but does not fall into the category of 'dull & self-indulgent'.
Also exquisitely produced & mixed - it'll make your hifi sound extra special.
Paradise is a dark place ! February 11, 2010
R. Deighton (Leeds)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Love this Album, like all of their best stuff you have to work it a few times and each time it gets better and better. Your going to hear new sounds and new ways. 3D is a genius and although 100th window was not the album Mezzanine was, it was still very good , but the return of Daddy G brings back the "dub" and reggae to this work.
Stand out track is Paradise Circus as much a masterpiece as Teardrop or Black Milk was on Mezzanine - more modern, more beautiful I cannot stop playing this track. Also look out for Horace Andy and the wonderful Girl I Love you. Psyche also terrific, Guy Garvey on Flat of the blade is scarilly amazing, and everything else is superb and ready for more in depth plays.
Its right up there with the best of the Massive back catalogue and that truly is the pantheon of British music. buy it, by the end of the year you'll feel you had the best value for money since the last album. But enjoy 'cos its got to last you 5 years........
Pottering in the Scottish highlands..... February 10, 2010
J. E. Holden (UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I feel compelled to review this album, since I think it is getting some harsh treatment, here on Amazon, but particularly in the likes of Pitchfork.com
You have to feel sorry for a band like Massive Attack. When you created one of the best dance tracks of all time with Unfinished Sympathy in 1991, you created one of the few truly unique, beautiful and dark albums of an era in Mezzanine in 1998. You then fade from the public view.
In the meantime, new artists come along to define new eras - the likes of Burial and the Bug along with others in our time. You are now in your mid-40s and early-50s, and you are never going to reach the peaks you once so majestically scaled.
With efforts such as 100th Window and this, Heligoland, the fifth studio album the band has produced, you are in lower realms. For Massive Attack, read Radiohead, and for Heligoland, read Hail to the Thief. The great climbers of Everest are now pottering up the Scottish highlands.
But what they can do is what they have done, they create a sound true to themselves, and therefore in the lineage of their previous great work. The connoiseurs of this sound can therefore enjoy this lineage, while to younger ears the fuss and the thrill will be difficult to find.
For me, in glimpses of Heligoland you hear that sweet Bristolian soul and the dark dark grit. For me, that is in Paradise Circus, in the opener Splitting the Atom, Flat of the Blade and Saturday comes slowly. No they are not what they were, but how the hell could you expect them to be?!!
 I really wanted to like this..... February 10, 2010
A B (Colwyn Bay, North Wales)
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this album expecting the best but was left feeling really disappointed. I really want to like it but unfortunatley it's just so dull. The first track plods along with little in the way of a tune and as soon as it ends it's completely forgotton. Then another equally tuneless track comes along, the only difference being a change of vocalist. This pattern then repeats until you thankfully reach the end of track ten. It's probably a great cure for insomnia but not much else.
Superb February 10, 2010
George Tsouderos (London, UK)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Beautiful, sometimes hypnotic, sometimes exhilarating music. Some songs are better than others but that was the case with their previous efforts.
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