Music
26 Mar 02

Nothing compares to Sinead

...says Massive Attack's 3D, now that several tracks' worth of collaboration with Sinead O'Connor are finally in the bag. And we'll surely see the new Massive album released in the autumn... okay, this time next century at the latest

Massive Attack's 3D has been singing – not to mention looping and sampling – Sinéad O'Connor's praises.

"We've done a couple of tracks with Sinéad (for our new album) which sound really good," he enthuses. "They're quite a departure for her. Everyone knows how great Sinéad is as a singer but she's very versatile as well. She's done two very beautiful songs; one's very political, one more personal.

"We'd been talking about working with Sinéad before Protection came out," he continues. "We were going to do a piece from Fauvre's Requiem called 'Libera Me'. We nearly got it together, then we met up with Tracey Thorn and it never took place.

"It's been great working with Sinéad – she's a very cool person, very sound. We did a couple of days in London with her last year, and then she came to Bristol for two more days in January."

While never ones to stick to deadlines, 3D is confident that Mezzanine will be ready for autumn release.

"We've whittled it right down from about 850 tracks to 12 in an attempt to finish it off," he continues. "We don't have a running order as such but we've a few tracks which we think are going to work together. If all goes according to schedule, we'll mix in June and July and finish it over the summer."