Logo
DiS Needs You: Save our site »
  • Logo_home2
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • In Photos
  • Blog
  • Podcast
  • Search
  • Community
  • Records
  • In Depth
  • Blog
  • Community

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED AND CLOSED.

Please join the conversation over on our new forums »

If you really want to read this, try using The Internet Archive.

Massive Attack

Live With Me

Label: Virgin Release Date: 13/03/2006

12966
agibbons by Anthony Gibbons March 16th, 2006

Beginning life as Bristol-based sound system The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack's seminal 1990 debut album Blue Lines skilfully blended dub, hip-hop and soul, and virtually single handedly invented trip-hop.

Classy new single 'Live With Me' returns to the Blue Lines template, possessing dark atmospherics, cinematic strings, a slightly sinister and druggy edge, and an almost overbearing sadness. It's a fitting reminder of what made Massive Attack so great in the first place. Plus, like the group's debut long-player, it highlights a respected but not necessarily universally known artist - this time it's folk/jazz singer Terry Callier who provides suitably world-weary vocals.

'Live With Me' is quality, for sure, and doesn't sound out of place alongside such illustrous company as 'Safe From Harm' or 'Protection' _on the forthcoming best-of compilation, _Collected. Such albums usually signal the arrival of an artist in the autumn of their career, but on this evidence Massive Attack aren’t done just yet.

All this, and the song's accompanied by a truly disturbing video directed by Jonathan Glazer, the man behind UNKLE’s car-crash horror-show ‘Rabbit In The Headlights’.

Watch a clip of Massive Attack’s ‘Live With Me’ via www.massiveattack.co.uk/collected/

  • 8
    Anthony Gibbons's Score
Log-in to rate this record out of 10
Share on
   
Love DiS? Become a Patron of the site here »


LATEST


  • Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025


  • Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024


  • Drowned in Sound is back!


  • Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Year: 2020


  • Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter


  • Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing



Left-arrow

Humanzi, Dirty Pretty Things, Louie at The Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Mon 13 Mar

Mobback
12950
12968

Why?, Danielson Famile

I'm Slow But I'm Sloppy / Did I Step On Your Remix?

Mobforward
Right-arrow


LATEST

    news


    Drowned in Sound's Albums of the Year 2025

  • 106149
  • news


    Why Music Journalism Matters in 2024

  • 106145

    news


    Drowned in Sound is back!

  • 106143
  • news


    Drowned in Sound's 21 Favourite Albums of the Y...

  • 106141

    news


    Drowned in Sound to return as a weekly newsletter

  • 106139
  • Playlist


    Lykke Li's Sadness Is A Blessing

  • 106138

    Festival Preview


    Glastonbury 2019 preview playlist + ten alterna...

  • 106137
  • Interview


    A Different Kind Of Weird: dEUS on The Ideal Crash

  • 106136
MORE


    Playlist


    Our Favourite Tracks of Q1 2015

  • 99412
  • feature


    The Knife: Swedish purveyors of alien synergy

  • 27337

    feature


    Yeah Yeah Yeahs answer your questions

  • 25930
  • feature


    Drinking the Knights Away: DiS meets James Merc...

  • 93723

    Artist 'n' Artist


    In conversation: Liars and Deerhunter

  • 40700
  • feature


    DiS meets Interpol

  • 8228

    Interview


    With Nile and I: DiS meets Nile Rodgers

  • 98023
  • feature


    Nicky Wire on the press, Shirley Bassey, and th...

  • 50002
MORE

Drowned in Sound
  • DROWNED IN SOUND
  • HOME
  • SITE MAP
  • NEWS
  • IN DEPTH
  • IN PHOTOS
  • RECORDS
  • RECOMMENDED RECORDS
  • ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
  • FESTIVAL COVERAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • MUSIC FORUM
  • SOCIAL BOARD
  • REPORT ERRORS
  • CONTACT US
  • JOIN OUR MAILING LIST
  • FOLLOW DiS
  • GOOGLE+
  • FACEBOOK
  • TWITTER
  • SHUFFLER
  • TUMBLR
  • YOUTUBE
  • RSS FEED
  • RSS EMAIL SUBSCRIBE
  • MISC
  • TERM OF USE
  • PRIVACY
  • ADVERTISING
  • OUR WIKIPEDIA
© 2000-2025 DROWNED IN SOUND