Massive Attack have announced that they’ll be releasing new music next year, however, they won’t be sharing it on Spotify.
Trip-hop icons Massive Attack rarely release new music, but that’s looking to change next year.
Earlier today, the group shared on social media that they plan to release new music, but shared that it won’t be coming to Spotify.
“From next year we will release a cache of work created in the recent past,” the group posted. “Tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label with a Spotify exception.”
Earlier this year, Massive Attack announced that it would remove their music from Spotify in response to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek’s multimillion-dollar investments in AI military drone technology through the German firm Helsing.
In their statement shared on social media, the band would write:
“In the separate case of Spotify, the economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded by a moral & ethical burden, whereby the hard-earned money of fans & the creative endeavours of musicians ultimately funds lethal, dystopian technologies,” the band continued. “Enough is more than enough. Another way is possible.”
At the same time as the announcement, the band would also share that they had joined the No Music For Genocide movement, a cultural boycott initiative pressuring artists, labels, and rights-holders to remove music from streaming platforms via geo-blocking in Israel.
The band also shared that they’ve started a new WhatsApp channel where there will be “direct announcements on 2026 releases and special performances.”
Massive Attack previously self-released the Eutopia EP back in 2020, which marked the ‘Teardrop’ group’s first bit of new music since 2016’s The Spoils, Come Near Me, and Ritual Spirit EP. The band’s last studio album, Heligoland, was released all the way back in 2010, and as of writing, it’s unclear if the new music Massive Attack is teasing will be released in the form of a new album or EP.
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