The release features collaborations from Algiers, Saúl Williams, and Young Fathers.
Massive Attack just released ‘Eutopia’, their first EP in 4 years. The material, which is made up of three tracks, was inspired by the book ‘Utopia’ written by Tomás Moro in the 16th century.
‘Eutopia’ was created by the trip-hop pioneers during confinement. Through their tracks, the Bristol band sends different social and environmental messages in which they portray the need to advocate for a more just and sustainable world.
‘The health contingency exposed the best aspects and the worst defects of humanity. That period of uncertainty and anxiety forced us to meditate on the obvious need to change the harmful systems by which we live. By working with three experts, we have created a sound and visual dialogue around these global and structural problems; taking the form of a climate emergency, tax haven extraction and universal basic income’, the band said in a statement.
For this reason, they had the collaboration of figures such as Christiana Figueres, who wrote the UN Climate Agreement in Paris, Guy Standing, universal basic income theorist, and Gabriel Zucman, professor in charge of the ‘wealth tax policy’ in the United States.
Check out the ‘Eutopia’ tracks below.
