Massive Attack want LP to sound live

Robert '3D' Del Naja of Massive Attack has said that the group's upcoming album sounds more organic than its predecessor.

The songwriter told The Times that Heligoland was recorded in a different way to 2003's 100th Window.

Del Naja said: "At that point, it was as if the machines were in control of us.

"It was when Pro Tools had suddenly become amazingly powerful. With the new Macs, you could constantly alter everything minutely for ever."

He added of Heligoland: "With so many people we were keen that all the sounds of the instruments should be very apparent.

"Hopefully, it sounds almost as if it were being played live, rather than recorded."

Of the seven-year wait since their last studio album and six years since the Danny The Dog soundtrack release, Del Naja added: "Portishead took ten years between their second and third album, and that took the pressure off all of us."