Massive Attack: Heligoland

After shoals of film music by 3D (Robert del Naja), Massive finally resurface, seven years after the lowly 100th Window , with a shadowy beast bespeckled by starry guest vocalists. After Tunde Adebimpe's quirky opener, is this a grumbly throwback to downbeat trip-hop featuring Daddy G and smoky old friends Horace Andy and Martina Topley-Bird? Partly, but then comes Hope Sandoval's exquisite fragility on "Paradise Circus", Guy Garvey's lugubrious humour on the clattery "Flat of the Blade", and Damon Albarn's warm, surging loneliness on "Saturday Come Show". Another mutation that can, out of the blackness, wriggle spectactularly