WATCH: Massive Attack is Back and They Brought Tricky With Them in “Take It There” Video

From the just-released “Ritual Spirit” EP.
WATCH: Massive Attack is Back and They Brought Tricky With Them in “Take It There” Video

From the just-released “Ritual Spirit” EP.

Words: FLOOD Staff

January 28, 2016

Massive Attack “Take it There” music video

It’s been six years since trip-hop progenitors Massive Attack released Heligoland, their most recent album. That record actually dropped seven years after 100th Window, so the London group are ahead of schedule with Ritual Spirit, the EP they surprise-released this morning.

“Take it There,” Ritual Spirit‘s lead single, features vocals from Tricky, a founding member of the group who left after 1994’s Protection and started a celebrated career in his own right. But you wouldn’t know there’d been a twenty-plus-year break in the camp from the “Take it There” video, which you can see below: between the ringing piano, Tricky’s grumbled vocal, and the synchronized stagger of the clip (which features Deadwood‘s John Hawkes), it feels like we’re right back in “Karmacoma” land.

Ritual Spirit is actually the first in a series of releases Massive Attack are preparing for 2016. Another EP is set to follow in the spring, and a full-length is slated for some time later in the year.

Watch “Take it There” below.

Ritual Spirit is out now via Kobalt Label Services.