I always got on more with 100th Window than Mezzanine, it has a Kid A feel to me and I agree Sinead O’Connor’s tracks are the stand outs. I thought the jump/change from Protection to Mezzanine was bigger/more dramatic, felt 100th Window more of a natural progression. Every album deserves continued listening though. Got the BoC tracks on now and loving these! They’ve been quiet too long!
Kid A is a good comparison, although it felt like most people understood Kid A when it came out but 100th Window fell flat. Not quite sure why. Glad you love the album, though.
I love these kind of reexaminations of initially dismissed or abandoned records. Will definitely give 100th Window another shot now. As a diehard BoC fan, those old tunes are interesting as well – though I am the rare breed of fan that prefers mid-period and even later BoC to very early BoC.
glad you like it. It's one of the kind of articles I most like writing. Let me know what you make of 100th Window. For me, those BoC racks are like Christmas again. (With the key difference being, this time I actually got some presents - eh parents???)
Excellent case for why 100th Window deserves a second listen. The microhouse comparison really nails it, that whole early 2000s aesthetic of sparse, clinical electronica was everywhere from Isolée to Akufen. What's interesting is how 3D basically stripped out all the warmth that made Massive Attack accessable and doubled down on alienation. I remmeber that era feeling like electronic music was either going maximal (electroclash) or super minimal, and this sits firmly in the latter camp.
Always love a Yes Please! comparison to a lost album that is worth a second look! I similarly went back to 100th Window a couple winters ago, and it made sense. I do remember that when it came out I had just gotten into Massive Attack as a young teen finally able to procure UK music rags. The child porn scandal and this album not having Daddy G did create a bad atmosphere around the release followed up by the maligned Danny The Dog OST. What I think is a similar release is Think Tank, seeing as the de facto leaders of the two bands took charge and made something stripped down and not entirely reminiscent of prior works. Also Damon and Del Naja were very prominent music figures in the anti-Iraq War movement.
I always got on more with 100th Window than Mezzanine, it has a Kid A feel to me and I agree Sinead O’Connor’s tracks are the stand outs. I thought the jump/change from Protection to Mezzanine was bigger/more dramatic, felt 100th Window more of a natural progression. Every album deserves continued listening though. Got the BoC tracks on now and loving these! They’ve been quiet too long!
Kid A is a good comparison, although it felt like most people understood Kid A when it came out but 100th Window fell flat. Not quite sure why. Glad you love the album, though.
Those BoC tracks are incredible!
I love these kind of reexaminations of initially dismissed or abandoned records. Will definitely give 100th Window another shot now. As a diehard BoC fan, those old tunes are interesting as well – though I am the rare breed of fan that prefers mid-period and even later BoC to very early BoC.
glad you like it. It's one of the kind of articles I most like writing. Let me know what you make of 100th Window. For me, those BoC racks are like Christmas again. (With the key difference being, this time I actually got some presents - eh parents???)
Excellent case for why 100th Window deserves a second listen. The microhouse comparison really nails it, that whole early 2000s aesthetic of sparse, clinical electronica was everywhere from Isolée to Akufen. What's interesting is how 3D basically stripped out all the warmth that made Massive Attack accessable and doubled down on alienation. I remmeber that era feeling like electronic music was either going maximal (electroclash) or super minimal, and this sits firmly in the latter camp.
thank you! I was very surprised when I came back to it that it sounded so microhouse-y. I had kind of forgotten that. But it was a great reminder.
Always love a Yes Please! comparison to a lost album that is worth a second look! I similarly went back to 100th Window a couple winters ago, and it made sense. I do remember that when it came out I had just gotten into Massive Attack as a young teen finally able to procure UK music rags. The child porn scandal and this album not having Daddy G did create a bad atmosphere around the release followed up by the maligned Danny The Dog OST. What I think is a similar release is Think Tank, seeing as the de facto leaders of the two bands took charge and made something stripped down and not entirely reminiscent of prior works. Also Damon and Del Naja were very prominent music figures in the anti-Iraq War movement.
I was actually thinking of you when I made that comparison! Glad you liked it. Think Tank is another very interesting comparison.