Eutopia (EP)

Eutopia
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Screenshot of the teaser video announcing the release of the EP
EP video by
Released10 July 2020 (2020-07-10)
GenreTrip hop
Length13:54
Massive Attack chronology
Ritual Spirit
(2016)
Eutopia
(2020)
Playlist
Eutopia EP playlist on YouTube
Massive Attack
@MassiveAttackUK
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British English: Eutopia [Noun] ‘A place of well-being, as a practical aspiration (compared with utopia as an impossible concept).”

10 July 2020[1]

Eutopia is a 2020 EP by British trip hop group Massive Attack, released on July 10, 2020 on the band's YouTube account as a collection of three music videos;[2] as of November 2024, it remains unavailable on Music streaming services. The EP represents the band's first work in four years, following the 2016 releases of the Ritual Spirit EP and the single "The Spoils".[3]

Recorded during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the three tracks feature spoken word passages from influential academics calling for action on climate change, tax havens and universal basic income.

  1. ^ Massive Attack [@MassiveAttackUK] (10 July 2020). "Eutopia [Noun] 'A place of well-being, as a practical aspiration (compared with utopia as an impossible concept)."" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Massive Attack debut stunning audio-visual EP ‘Eutopia’, NME, 10 July 2020 https://www.nme.com/news/music/massive-attack-tease-new-eutopia-ep-with-mysterious-instagram-posts-2704269 Archived 2020-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Watch Cate Blanchett's face decompose in Massive Attack's new video for 'The Spoils'". NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM. 9 August 2016. Archived from the original on 14 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2020.