100th Window

Seminal trip-hoppers Massive Attack's fourth album '100th Window' continues along the same lines as their 1998 release 'Mezzanine'. Hypnotic vocals are fused with dark hip hop rhythms, dub grooves and cinematic samples. Sinead O'Connor lends her vocals to three tracks, along with long term collaborator Horace Andy and Damon Albarn, who provides backing vocals to the track 'Small Time Shot Away'.

Rolling Stone (2/20/03, p.61)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...This may be the most accessible, freaky, futuristic electronic head-food album on the market..."

Spin (3/03, p.117-8)
- 7 out of 10 - "...100TH WINDOW is a masterpiece of haunted sonics..."

Mojo (3/03, p.97)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...[Del Naja] is by turns breathy and uncertain, sensitive and coaxing, seductive and menacing....Massive Attack are still restless, still questing, still chary of stagnation..."

Vibe (4/03, p.178)
- 4 discs out of 5 - "...With its ice-cold beats, smoldering bass lines, and shimmering textures, this is one of the most openly erotic albums British pop has ever given us..."

Uncut (3/03, p.104)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...There's a radioactive air about the album, which coupled with the use of Eastern, Arabic strings, brings to musical life a palpable sense of post-September 11 tension....It takes you there..."

The Wire (2/03, p.62)
- "...Yawning, meticulous Ambient fields....It's all elegantly executed and often beguiling..."