MASSIVE ATTACK'S LATEST

Massive Attack has a new album out, Heligoland. I don't think I've written about them often in No Expiration, but I think that their 1991 album Blue Lines and the followup, 1995's Protection, are two of the best albums of the '90s.  I don't have the new album, but I did buy the single, "Paradise Circus," off of iTunes.  It features guest vocals (as many Massive Attack songs do) by Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. It's a great song, and I'll have to check this album out soon (I plan to discuss it on The Morning Jolt in the next few weeks). It also reminds me that Mazzy Star supposedly have a new album on the way.  I would love to hear that also.

HOPE SANDOVAL'S NEW ALBUM

Hope Sandoval will be releasing her new album Through The Devil Softly on September 15. I didn't love her last one, or the last Mazzy Star album, but I loved Mazzy's first two. And she tells Rolling Stone that Mazzy's fourth album (and their first since 1996) is almost finished, but has no idea when it will come out. I think that she is a lovely singer, and Mazzy Star were totally underrated.