Massive Attack to Put Out EP of 'Heligoland' Left Overs

Posted on Feb 2nd 2010 6:57AM by Farah Ishaq
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Massive Attack, who are set to release their anticipated fifth album 'Heligoland' next week (Feb. 8) have admitted they have a lot of unfinished and leftover material -- which they hope to release as an EP in May.

One of the tracks penned for 'Heligoland', the Bristol pair Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall's first record in six years, is a collaboration with Elbow's Guy Garvey -- but the song has proved troublesome so far to complete.

Del Naja, speaking to 6 Music explains "We've got this one called Red Light, which we wrote with Guy, which we've been playing live for two years and we still can't finish it. I really don't know if it will get finished ... Some songs are like that. Some happen instantly and some continually trouble you."

The EP, Del Naja says, "Will probably be made up of tracks that we didn't put on this record and maybe some new stuff as well. That's obviously one of the tracks we're looking at trying to finish."

The album, the follow-up to '100th Window' has guest collaborations and appearances from an array of musicians, including Damon Albarn, Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval, Martina Topley-Bird, TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe and Portishead's Adrian Utley.