Suitable for lift which takes you to hell
Concert: Massive Attack
Location: amphitheater, the festival
the audience: around 10 000
Current record: “Ritual Spirit EP”
About the festival in 2016 was a movie, had “Help, there has been an explosion in the time machine factory!» been title. Which brings us to the first headliner.
The concert is over, and headed out of Tøyenparken over I hear a young lady saying “I did not recognize many of the songs, but from the TV commercial was nice.” Massive Attack announced in 2016 are summarized.
But the founders of trip hop, nittallets most nittitallete genre, have set deeper track than so – and not just in the cafe wallpapers.
Massive Attacks grim downtempo inspired icons as Björk and Madonna, but also mostly between Sugababes and Burial. Especially grateful I am for one of history’s most beautiful songs, masterpiece “Unfinished Sympathy” in 1991.
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But the first half the concert in Tøyenparken is a reminder of why their Bristol-sound not survived Y2k and was reduced to the background sound for horny vampires and hackers in dark cellars.
There are more goth than trip hop when Massive Attack playing rock- band. The first goes out with “United Snakes”, a hopefully intentional parody pretending political electronica. Two drummers and an overzealous Angelo Bruschini on guitar, located under Robert Del Najas vocoder-brass on this below average opener.
It helps to see the veteran Horace Andy walking out on stage to “Hymn of the Big Wheel “but the joy stops at the sight. Jamaikaneren not violate samples the song repetitive patterns until an hour later.
Monotony at its best evokes a form of hypnosis, but in Massive Attacks case, Tøyenparken decapitated by boredom. Neither “Risingson” or “Ritual Spirit” plays on emotion, despite raw falsetto-effort Azekel the latter.
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Between songs can hears bass lines from Kaytranadas DJ set in Circus tent, and feeling that I chose the wrong concert to end the island’s first day with becomes conspicuous.
But then something happens!
The Scottish rappers Young Fathers jumps and stage wake. The trio’s energy is huge, and with the Middle-Eastern groove in the “Old Rock n Roll” (which generations of Bollywood sampling in “Karma Coma”) hears for the first time how Massive Attacks heritage fits in the present.
The young fathers take the torch from Bristol veterans and stomps on it in line with “Shame”, a stunning pop song masquerading as murky dance punk at best LCD Soundsystem spirit.
the energy goods through the primal rhythmic Massive Attack cooperation “Voodoo In My Blood”.
The sensual bass line from “Angel” evokes unison ooooh-ing from the audience. “Finally a familiar song!” I hear from the side. Advertising song, yes. And here’s Horace Andy in his element, with qualified hypnosis from the remnants of the Wild Bunch. The texture is sitting like a shot.
But through the dated “Inertia Creeps” and “Take It There” is Massive Attack a tedious anachronism again. It’s dark and repetitive. Suitable for the elevator that takes you down to hell.
Deborah Miller makes dog a good job as Shara Nelson replaces the “Safe From Harm”, tonight’s penultimate song and a few decent trip hop moments. Miller struggling a bit to justify “Unfinished Sympathy” – but it is impossible not to be touched by the giant strings in combination of dusty breaks and 808 drums.
The first island-exit was a reminder of the past greatness, and a greater future among TV mower favorites.
Sandeep SINGH
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