New Massive Attack Album Features Damon Albarn, Portishead, Elbow, TV On The Radio Members

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Massive Attack's first album in seven years will be called Heligoland when it is released Feb. 9 through Virgin.

The album features many notable guests. Damon Albarn sings on "Saturday Come Slow," on which Portishead's Adrian Utley plays guitar. Albarn also contributes bass on "Flat Of The Blade" and keyboards on "Splitting The Atom."

Heligoland also features guest spots from TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, longtime collborator Horace Andy, Hope Sandoval, Elbow singer Guy Garvey and Martina Topley-Bird. Massive Attack also collaborated with Death From Above's Tim Goldsworthy on many of Heligoland's tracks.

You can hear a stream of "Pray For Rain" here, while "Splitting The Atom" and a remix of "Psyche" can be found on Massive Attack's MySpace page.

You can see Robert "3D" Del Naja and Grant "Daddy G" Marshall at these shows:

Nov. 25 Winterthur, Switzerland @ Eishalle
Feb. 8 Newport, Wales @ Newport Centre
Feb. 9 Brighton, England @ Brighton Dome
Feb. 11 London, England @ HMV Hammersmith Apollo

Here are the songs on Heligoland:

"Pray For Rain" (featuring Tunde Adebimpe)
"Babel" (featuring Martina Topley-Bird)
"Splitting The Atom" (featuring Horace Andy)
"Girl I Love You" (featuring Horace Andy)
"Psyche" (featuring Martina Topley-Bird)
"Flat Of The Blade" (featuring Guy Garvey)
"Paradise Circus" (featuring Hope Sandoval)
"Rush Minute"
"Saturday Come Slow" (featuring Damon Albarn)
"Atlas Air"
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