Massive Attack have announced details of their first full length studio album in seven years. The follow up to 2003's 100th Window will be called Heligoland, taking its name from the German island chain in the North Sea. As expected, the album will feature a barrage of guest appearances from Damon Albarn, Elbow's Guy Garvey, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Postishead's Adrian Utley, Martina Topley-Bird, Horace Andy and Hope Sandoval. There is also a Heligoland remix album on the way from Burial. Heligoland is due for release on February 5th. The full tracklisting is as follows:

1 Pray for Rain (ft.Tunde Adebimpe)
2 Babel (ft. Martina Topley-Bird)
3 Splitting The Atom (ft. Robert del Naja, Grant Marshall, and Horace Andy)
4 Girl I Love You (ft. Horace Andy)
5 Psyche (ft. Martina Topley-Bird)
6 Flat of the Blade (ft. Guy Garvey)
7 Paradise Circus (ft. Hope Sandoval)
8 Rush Minute (ft. Robert del Naja)
9 Saturday Come Slow (ft. Damon Albarn)
10 Atlas Air (ft. Robert del Naja)

Animal Collective's Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear, spoke to pedestrian.tv about the follow up to 2007's highly acclaimed album 'Person Pitch'. "The rhythms are really basic and kind of raw and simple and are electronic. It's not live instrumentation, I've been playing guitar but I feed it through the same thing that the sequences are on. It's a very electronic sound and very voice heavy. A simple arrangement of drums, the guitar and singing... The tone is a lot darker and it sounds sort of dramatic or romantic to me." Panda Bear also recently revealed that Animal Collective have completed work on the "visual album" that has been in the works since 2006, and that it should be released some time in 2010.

Eminem has pushed back the release date for Relapse 2 until later in 2010, but will instead issue an extended version of this year's Relapse, under the new name 'Relapse: Refill'. The Refill will feature tracks originally intended for Relapse 2, which were bumped after Eminem took the record in a different direction with producers Dre and Just Blaze. The Refill features seven tracks including 'Forever', a collaboration with Drake, Lil Wayne and Kanye West. It is due for release on December 18th, and the tracklist is as follows:

Forever
Hell Breaks Loose
Buffalo Bill
Elevator
Taking My Ball
Music Box
Drop The Bomb On 'Em
 

Beyonce plans to release a new album in 2010. The singing superstar made an announcement at a show in Trent, "This is my last show for this tour in the UK, so hopefully, I'll see you all in a year with a new album". Producer Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins is working on tracks for the album, and confirmed the news via Twitter. Beyonce recently collaborated with Alicia Keys on a track for her new album, while 'Crazy In Love' was voted NME's song of the decade.
 

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has revealed that his next solo record will be the soundtrack to a new British film he describes as a 'freak thriller'. The 45 minute score includes several new versions of nursery rhymes and traditional folk songs, and Coxon has compared it to 'Pink Floyd with fangs'. Coxon recently admitted to NME that is open to reuniting once again with his Blur bandmates for another tour and possible recordings next year.
 

In other album news, Texas rockers Spoon have bumped up the release of their new album 'Transference' to January 15th and confirmed the release of a single, 'Written In Reverse', while on December 11th Duke Special will release a 19 track rarities album featuring covers of Prince, Radiohead and Nina Simone, as well as a three EP box set featuring his Lucky Me, My Villain Heart and Your Vandal Heart EPs.