Listen to Massive Attack and Burial‘s collaboration “4 Walls” below.
No, you’re not seeing things, this IS a collaboration between Massive Attack and Burial. Yes, THAT Massive Attack. Yes, THAT Burial. It’s ok, it completely took me by surprise too, but holy crap is this good.
Being released as a surprise limited edition 12″ it’s got some sexy packaging too, however the vinyl will set you back £25 ($39) (although it will come in a gold glitter screen-printed sleeve designed by the main dude in Massive Attack Robert “3D” Del Naja, hand-numbered, and pressed on 180gram heavyweight vinyl), but just based on the title track alone it’s more than worth it.
This collab has been rumoured and speculated for a long, but now it’s finally here. Two pioneers of U.K. Electronic music brought their A-Game with this track, a 12-minute, mournful, wet, dank take on a shitty winter to come. The b-side “Paradise Circus” is a reworking of a Massive Attack track from 2010′s “Heligoland”. Burial seems to be focusing on working with other artists as of late as opposed to doing new stuff on his own, such as his collaboration with Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke and Four Tet on “Mirror” and “Ego”.
Listen to “4 Walls” below and buy the 12″ here. There are only 1,000 of them being pressed so be quick about it.
