Back in 2003 I wasn’t sure about Massive Attack’s 100th Window, and hoped it would grow on me.
Twenty-three years later, I put it on again.
It’s heart breaking to hear Sinéad O’Connor. I forgot about how much she was in this (and, gloriously—she’s nailing that deadpan).
Is this as much of a banger as the previous records? No. It wasn’t supposed to be. This was a record with a whole lot of feeling, and it was supposed to be different, and it felt different. And listening to it 20 years later, I appreciate what they were going for.
It’s a lot slower. It’s a lot more serious. It’s who they would become.
And the strings on the last track, “Antistar”, are fucking brilliant.