Massive Attack, Saturday Come Slow (Feat. Damon Albarn)

With music playing such an intricate role within our daily lives, it’s hard to imagine that it can alternatively be used as a form of punishment.  In prisons and detention camps around the world (like the controversial Guantánamo Bay), loud music has been used a form of torture. 

Renown for their impressive and consistent career videography, Massive Attack's latest for "Saturday Come Slow (feat. Damon Albarn)”, is perhaps their most haunting.  Blending first person testimony of Guantánamo Bay loud music torture tactics with scientific talk about its agonizing affects ("distortion can be more annoying than loudness"), it's a heavy and melancholic realization about sound.

Check out the eight minute short film, “Saturday Come Slow”, streaming on FEEDER.

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