MASSIVE ATTACK/TOM WAITS - Boots On The Ground Vinyl

For a band who have spent the better part of three decades refining a very particular kind of unease, Massive Attack returning at all feels faintly momentous, although what they deliver here is curiously restrained, almost as if they're testing how little information a track can contain before it evaporates. Drafting in Tom Waits only sharpens that tension. 'Boots On The Ground' hinges on a stubborn, looping beat and a handful of piano chords that refuse to resolve, Waits circling the title phrase until it starts to feel less like a lyric than a condition. The imagery flickers, then blurs. On the reverse, 'The Fly' pares things back further, a loose, sardonic monologue that seems to drift in and out of focus. You can pick at its sparseness, easily, but it has a way of sticking.

Tracklist:

Side 1
1.Massive Attack & Tom Waits - "Boots On The Ground"
4:25
Side 2
1.Tom Waits - "The Fly"
4:22