Massive Attack & Tom Waits - Boots On The Ground - New Eco with Obi-Strip LP

Format: New Eco LP Label: Ultra Vybe Japan Cat. No. PIASR 1700PSJ Barcode: 5400863210090 Released: 04/09/2026

There are few groups more adept at weaponising atmosphere than Bristol's Massive Attack, whose best work has always thrived in the murky territory between dread and political exhaustion. 'Boots On The Ground' feels perversely skeletal, but in a way that gives every detail this enormous gravitational pull. A blunted percussion loop drags itself across the track while frostbitten piano chords hover in the distance like failing streetlights. Into that negative space wanders Tom Waits, sounding utterly spectral as he mutters fragments of militarised violence with astonishing weariness.