Massive Attack with Bre Morell

Bandsplain

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Music

4.4 • 582 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 180 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Bandsplain, Bre Morell of Crushed joins Yasi to talk about reluctant genre inventing geniuses Massive Attack. We talk through the rich music history of Bristol, their sound system DJ origins, the visual signatures, all the musical influences that fed into their sound, and the many artists that sprung up or morphed their sound in their wake. Episode Playlist Listen to the Massive Attack playlist here CREDITS: Host: Yasi Salek @yasisalek Guest: Bre Morell @bremorell Producer: Rob Sundermann Editor: Adrian Bridges Additional Production Supervision: Justin Sayles Theme Song: Bethany Cosentino Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's with this band anyway?
0:04.0	I don't get it, can you please explain?
0:07.0	Wait, like, Bansplaine?
0:11.0	Never heard this band in my life.
0:15.0	Oh, you haven't? I love that. Really? Why?
0:19.0	Yeah, I love this song. Oh, I don't know that one. Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain.
0:25.5	I really hate this band. Whatever. I'm their biggest fan. Bansplain, Bansplain, Bansplain.
0:36.1	Bansplain.
0:56.8	Hello and welcome to Bandsplane. I am your host, Yassie Sallick. This is a show where I invite an expert guest on to help me explain a cult band or iconic artist. Today's episode is about Massive Attack. If you've never heard Mass massive attack, love, love is a verb, babe.
1:14.2	My guest today is the gorgeous, the talented, the intelligent, beautiful, perfect.
1:17.2	Brie Morrell of the band Crushed.
1:18.1	Hello.
1:19.3	Welcome to the show.
1:20.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:22.1	I'm so happy to have you.
1:23.2	I'm very happy to be here.
1:25.4	It's an absolute honor and a joy.
1:27.2	Well, I wouldn't go that far.
1:27.9	It's true. See how you feel an hour for.
1:30.2	Sure.
1:30.4	How joyful you feel when you're on, you know, your fourth hour of discussing trip hop.
1:37.8	Bree, do you want to kick us off by, because you're a bit younger than me, I learned today in the parking garage that you're born in the 90s.
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