Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom EP

Having allegedly shelved sessions with Liz Frazer and Mike Patton, the standard for Massive Attack’s new studio output must be through the roof, right? 3D and Daddy G emerge from their bunker with this taster EP only to tumble some way down from the summit reached by the glorious Live With Me in 2006. Imagine Leonard Cohen reinterpreting The Message over a chord organ loop and you'll already know its title track. The trundling Pray for Rain with Tunde Adebimpe and a chilling remix of Psyche by Knife collaborator Christopher Berg do yield some ‘next level’ promise for LP5, but Subliminal Kid’s lulling trance dub of Bulletproof Love is only good for 40 winks. Guy Garvey could've phoned in his vocal from the bath.