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Feb 6, 2023 · In a finger-snap, Massive Attack had surrendered their status as the most bullet-proof band in Britain. But as the LP’s 20th anniversary approaches, there is surely a case to be made for...
- Their Music Is Almost Impossible to Categorise Or Describe
- Not only That, But Each Album Is Significantly Different from The Last
- They’Ve Drawn Brilliant Work from A Dizzying Array of Collaborators
- They’Re Not from London, Or Any Other Huge City
- Protection Inspired No Protection...
- They Make Babies Kick in The Womb
Massive Attack don’t sound like anyone else. Yes, they form, or formed, part of a Bristol-based movement loosely known as trip-hop, but how exactly do you describe their sound? A mixture of rap, funk, jazz, dub reggae? Nah, that’s way too prosaic. Incredibly dense and murky, almost brutally heavy, but at the same time dreamy and feather-light, and ...
Trace a sonic progression from Blue Lines through Protection, Mezzanine and 100th Window up to the most recent, Heligoland – and you’ll find that there really is no progression. It’s all so fluid, mutable, ever-surprising. Pray for Rain from Heligoland:
Shara Nelson, Tracey Thorn, Horace Andy, Guy Garvey, Hope Sandoval, Damon Albarn, Elizabeth Fraser, Sinead O’Connor, Martina Topley-Bird and others. And it doesn’t feel forced or “ooh look at all our celebrity friends”. These collaborations serve the music, always. Here's Special Cases with Sinead O'Connor:
Perhaps that’s why they’re so good, and so unusual; you get room to breathe, artistically, outside the major conurbations. (And no wonder so much of the London and Manchester-centred Britpop was so lumpen, conformist and unimaginative.) See also: Dorset’s one-of-a-kind PJ Harvey, or the mighty Suede, who may sing about London but mostly hail from s...
...wherein the Mad Professor remixed the album, or rather deconstructed and reassembled it, with fantastic results.
Swear to God – tiny embryonic music fans just love those floaty vocals and deep, deeeeep heartbeat basslines. The beats on Angel even sounded like a pulse, muffled but clearly reverberating through the amniotic sea. (Narcotic, amniotic – yeah. Maybe that’s the best description.)
Massive Attack's awards include a Brit Award for Best British Dance Act, two MTV Europe Music Awards, and two Q Awards. They have released five studio albums that have sold over 13 million copies worldwide. Massive Attack support some political, human rights and environmental causes.
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- Mezzanine (1998) “A very very cool and individual album that offers some very dark imagery and the classic track ‘Teardrop’. I am sure this will remain as the best and most consistent album by Massive Attack, the mood and production are amazing – definitely a late-night album.”
- Blue Lines (1991) “The Trip Hop pioneers lay down some amazingly chill and cool hip hop beats fused with nothing but vigor and soul (not the musical kind, the… essence kind.)
- Protection (1994) “This is their best in my book. Protection is gorgeous and their other songs reflect more style, ambition, and polish then their debut.
- Heligoland (2010) “Heligoland, it seems has been an extremely overlooked album. More downtempo than Massive Attack’s usual Trip Hop, the album, at first glance, could seem a little slow to listeners.
Dec 28, 2013 · Mezzanine is Massive Attack’s most polyglot album – the natural product of the band’s too-many-cooks “collective” practice, multiracial background and broad pool of influences. That’s...
Dec 18, 2023 · Massive Attack - Safe From Harm. Click to load video. Between Blue Lines and their second album, 1994’s Protection, the group’s sound became known as trip-hop, and fellow Bristolians Tricky and...
Jan 8, 2017 · By Nate Patrin. Genre: Electronic. Label: Virgin. Reviewed: January 8, 2017. On Mezzanine, Massive Attack tried to escape trip-hop. They nearly tore themselves apart and made its defining...
