100th Window

100th Window is the fourth studio album by English electronic music group Massive Attack, released on 10 February 2003 by Virgin Records. Of the group's original core line-up, the album only features Robert Del Naja; Andrew Vowles departed shortly after the release of the group's previous album Mezzanine (1998), and Grant Marshall refused to participate in the making of the record. 100th Window was written and produced by Del Naja and Neil Davidge, and features vocals from Horace Andy, Sinéad O'Connor, and Damon Albarn (performing as 2D). It is also the first album by the group that makes no use of samples, and contains none of the jazz or jazz fusion stylings of the group's first two albums Blue Lines (1991) or Protection (1994).

100th Window
Studio album by
Massive Attack
Released10 February 2003
Recorded2001–2002
StudioSony Studios
Genre
Length73:52
LabelVirgin
Producer
Massive Attack chronology
Singles 90/98
(1998)		 100th Window
(2003)		 Danny the Dog
(2004)
Singles from 100th Window
  1. "Special Cases"
    Released: 24 February 2003
  2. "Butterfly Caught"
    Released: 16 June 2003

Background

Work on the album started in early 2000 at the Christchurch Studios in Clifton, Bristol. Massive Attack recruited Lupine Howl (a band made up of ex-members of Spiritualized) for the new album. In a November 2001 interview, Lupine Howl's lead singer Sean Cook described the sessions as "very experimental ... that essentially consisted of kinda minimal loops and noises that were fed to our headphones from the computer up in the control room. Then we would have this sort of extended jam session playing along to them and they would do various things to do the loops. Sometimes they would drop out the loop, sometimes they would start processing it with effects and delays and stuff like that, to try and make it change in various ways and see what that would do in terms of our playing. They also had a strobe light in the live room, which they controlled from the control room. They would kind of put that on and speed it up to dictate the intensity and try to affect the way we played with the lighting. It was a really good laugh; we got some good stuff. I mean, hours and hours of stuff, which they have taken back and cut up and arranged and done their things to."[2]

In a 17 July 2002 posting to Massive Attack's forums Del Naja wrote that over the course of time, the band had become "very unhappy with the shapes being formed", and that by the beginning of 2002 they had discarded most of the material that was written up to that point. As a result, Lupine Howl is not credited with any contributions to the final album. However, one song from those sessions, "Nature of Threat", was later made available for download on Massive Attack's website.

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Alternative Press4/5[5]
Entertainment WeeklyC[6]
The Guardian[7]
Los Angeles Times[8]
Mojo[9]
Pitchfork5.1/10[10]
Rolling Stone[11]
Spin7/10[12]
Uncut[13]

Initial critical response to 100th Window was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 75, based on 25 reviews.[3]

As of 2010, sales in the United States have exceeded 180,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[14]

Track listing

All tracks written by Robert "3D" Del Naja and Neil Davidge except tracks 2, 4 & 6 written by Del Naja/Davidge/O'Connor

No.TitleLength
1."Future Proof" (vocals by 3D)5:37
2."What Your Soul Sings" (vocals by Sinéad O'Connor)6:37
3."Everywhen" (vocals by Horace Andy)7:37
4."Special Cases" (vocals by Sinéad O'Connor)5:09
5."Butterfly Caught" (vocals by 3D)7:33
6."A Prayer for England" (vocals by Sinéad O'Connor)5:44
7."Small Time Shot Away" (vocals by 3D, backing vocals by 2-D)7:57
8."Name Taken" (vocals by Horace Andy)7:47
9."Antistar" (The song "Antistar" ends at 8:17. At 8:47, an untitled hidden track, commonly referred to as "LP4", starts playing) (vocals by 3D)19:40

Personnel

Orchestra arrangement by Craig Pruess, Neil Davidge and Robert "3D" Del Naja

Charts

Certifications and sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[50] Gold 35,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[51] Gold 15,000*
Belgium (BEA)[52] Gold 25,000*
Portugal (AFP)[53] Silver 10,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[54] Gold 20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[55] Gold 100,000^
United States — 180,000[14]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

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