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A beginner's guide to Massive Attack

Massive Attack have landed in Australia for a run of sold-out arena shows this week. If you're wondering what makes them such a big deal, here's your crash course.

ABC Australia News By Al Newstead, Dan Condon Aug 3, 2026, 6:30 PM Captured Aug 3, 2026, 6:37 PM

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Despite it being 16 years since their last album, Massive Attack's reputation as one of electronic music's most respected and influential names is untarnished.

The deeply innovative, evocative British trailblazers emerged in 1988 out of Bristol collective The Wild Bunch and helped pioneer an atmospheric, cross-bred sound that would be dubbed "trip hop".

Though they never embraced the label, Massive Attack's cinematic splicing of brooding ambience, hypnotic dub grooves, subtler, soulful vocals and hip hop's omnivorous sampling was a refreshing alternative to popular 90s trends like Britpop, big beat and UK hip hop.

Being credited with breaking an entire movement "was flattering," the group once remarked.

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Here's what you need to lead you down the path from novice to new-found obsessive.

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Though they never embraced the label, Massive Attack's cinematic splicing of brooding ambience, hypnotic dub grooves, subtler, soulful vocals and hip hop's omnivorous sampling was a refreshing alternative to popular 90s trends like Britpop, big beat and UK hip hop.

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"Before we set foot on the stage and again at the end of the show, large sections of the auditorium organically led chants of 'Free Palestine', presumably aware, but undeterred, that this spontaneous expression alone could violate their government's censorship laws," the band said in a statement.
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In 2019, the group commissioned researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research to explore how live music touring could be made more sustainable, resulting in the Super-Low Carbon Live Music Roadmap, published in 2021.

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