Massive Attack

From the group who practically invented trip-hop, this highly anticipated third LP Mezzanine follows Massive Attack's crowd-pleasing method of laying down introspective rhymes over blunted beats and dub electronics. As on Protection, the most outstanding track features a special guest. This time it's "Teardrop," with Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins.

Elder statesmen of the moody dance genre that used to trade under the facile name of
trip-hop, Massive Attack like to take their time making albums – so long, indeed, that they
perpetually run the risk of being overtaken by the very people (Björk, Tricky, Portishead,
et al.) they've influenced. One of Massive Attack's strengths, though, is their indifference
to passing fads. In a field where career longevity is a contradiction in terms, the... More >