Saturday Come Slow music video: Massive Attack feat. Damon Albarn

Perhaps the most harrowing part of Saturday Come Slow is the desperation you feel in Damon Albarn's voice. The lyrics are pretty benign, but paired with the pain implied in his voice it becomes entirely sorrowful. The video for the song matches this sorrow with an almost mini-documentary about the torture tactics employed at Abu Ghraib. A victim discusses his awful experiences at the hands of US interrogators using loud music as a form of torture. Meanwhile, the track is distorted to show the damaging effects.
Sorry, no snark here, just a pretty powerful track made even more so by another insightful video from Massive Attack.

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Massive Attack's 'Saturday Come Slow' feat. Damon Albarn, album version.

Are you all impatiently waiting for Massive Attack's new album Heligoland like I am? If you just can't wait until February, I've come across a youtube upload of Damon's track 'Saturday Come Slow'. We all heard it when Massive Attack performed it live with Damon last September, so this version has been a long time coming. If this truly is the final cut, the vocals are much more subtle than the live performance. It gives the song a less urgent feel, Damon's live vocals were gut-wrenching, and gave it a sense of desperation. The album cut is more melancholy. I think it'll grow on me, but it seems that Damon sometimes has a hard time letting his vocals be the centerpiece, preferring to keep himself lower in the mix. Obviously, this was probably a decision made with Massive Attack (or even solely by them), but I'm excited to hear the new Gorillaz album Plastic Beach since Damon has said he's put more emphasis on his vocals.
Anyway, it's just nitpicking really, this is still a fantastic track.


There's also an mp3 of this track at Hotcakes, if you just can't hold out...