NAME: Massive Attack PROGRESS REPORT: Wrapping up their fifth album, working title Weather Underground ("It's not going to be the title"), at their studio in Bristol. Massive Attack have been working on their new record on and off for about five years, but when it comes out early next year, it'll be a last minute affair. Maybe because members Grant Marshall ("G") and Robert Del Naja ("D") have been working so long, something's relaxed -- maybe too relaxed -- about the album's progress. For instance, last year they toured with what was to be their next album, then decided to scrap all that material and start over. "By the time we played it out we were kinda going nowhere with it. It had already been broadcast. It was kind of one of those 'start again' moments," Del Naja explains. Former member Tricky wanted to make whole albums, not them. "We came from a DJ background and we were all about single tracks, playlisting single things, not really making an album as a whole. To us it didn't really matter because we were just ripping things apart and sampling them. There was a sort of irreverence towards other peoples' albums." Continue reading Progress Report: Massive Attack...