Massive Attack

Mezzanine

AMAZING!

Pardon my inner-stan, but I get Gorillaz VIBES anytime I hear cuts like; "Black Milk", "Exchange", or especially the title track.

Maybe trip-hop is just too good for this life.

Ummmm are yall sure this came out in 98? Not like....tomorrow?

Edit: sounds like background music for shooting heroin

After less than half a decade of life, the main catalysts to the term trip-hop were already trying to shake the confines of the genre off. Portishead had shifted their sound into something far more menacing on their sophomore album and Tricky had ventured out into something even more abrasive than his debut Maxinquaye. That left the pioneers themselves, Massive Attack, to be the ones to put the final nail in the coffin of trip-hop by changing their sound drastically and embracing new territory. ... read more

Number: 49

I really liked it when their was vocals, without vocals a lot of it just felt…empty. Like Portishead but not as good. That’s not to say there isn’t some good tracks with a lot of character like the calming “Teardrop” and the chilling “Black Milk.” But over all I wasn’t ever impressed. It felt like it was atmospheric without ever choosing to develop an atmosphere.