... Mezzanine delivers in all aspects and is what electronic music is all about. Robert Del Naja is the key on this album, a brilliant song writer and vocalist. Inertia Creeps is such a deep song with a fantastic bass line and can really get you in the mood (if you know what I mean).
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Attack were one of the most important bands in the world. Bristol's original trip-hop pioneers had, on previous albumsBlue LinesandProtection, fused turntable wi...
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By the release of 1998'sMezzanine, critics were suddenly of the understanding that Massive ... more
Attack were one of the most important bands in the world. Bristol's original trip-hop pioneers had, on previous albumsBlue LinesandProtection, fused turntable wi...
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...is always of top quality. Mezzanine delivers in all aspects and is what electronic music is all about. Robert Del Naja is the key on this album, a brilliant song writer and vocalist. Inertia Creeps is such a deep song with a fantastic bass line and can really get you in the mood (if you know what I mean).
Massive Attack are continually producing quality albums but they are few and far between. It's what makes them more special. I managed ... ...Live, amazing.
Mezzanine definately has a more modern electronic feel compared to previous releases Blue Lines and Protection. Whilst not losing their original edge and political statements they've incorporated some great tunes onto this album and is well worth a listen.
1 - "Angel" (Robert Del Naja, Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Hinds) - 6:18
Vocals by Horace Andy
By far my most favorite Massive Attack album. I've owned this album for some years and guarantee I will own it for many more. Teardrops is top of list on my All Time Tracks.
The guest singers Massive Attack have on their albums is always of top quality. Mezzanine delivers in all aspects and is what electronic music is all about. Robert Del Naja is the key on this album, a brilliant song writer and vocalist. Inertia Creeps is such a deep song with a fantastic bass line and can really get you in the mood (if you know what I mean).
Massive Attack are continually producing quality albums but they are few and far between. It's what makes them more special. I managed to see Massive Attack at Creamfields a few years ago and they performed Teardrops AND Intertia Creeps Live, amazing.
Mezzanine definately has a more modern electronic feel compared to previous releases Blue Lines and Protection. Whilst not losing their original edge and political statements they've incorporated some great tunes onto this album and is well worth a listen.
1 - "Angel" (Robert Del Naja, Marshall, Andrew Vowles, Hinds) - 6:18 Vocals by Horace Andy
2 - "Risingson" (Del Naja, Marshall, Vowles, Lou Reed, Seeger) - 4:58 Features sample from "I Found A Reason" by The Velvet Underground
3 - "Teardrop" (Del Naja, Marshall, Vowles, Elizabeth Fraser) - 5:29 Vocals by Elizabeth Fraser
5 - "Exchange" (Bob Hilliard, Mort Garson) - 4:11 Features sample from "Our Day Will Come" by Isaac Hayes
6 - "Dissolved Girl" (Del Naja, Marshall, Vowles, Sara Jay, Schwartz) - 6:07 Vocals by Sara Jay
7 - "Man Next Door" (John Holt, Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst, Michael Dempsey) - 5:55 Vocals by Horace Andy Features sample from "10:15 Saturday Night" by The Cure
Advantages: contains one of the most beautiful songs ever written Disadvantages: the rest pales in comparison
This album I bought purely because it contained my all time fave track, teardrop. As a fan of female vocalists I initially felt that the rest of the album was not for me, but on listening to it as a progression of tracks I have come to find that it has grown on me. however, I am still personally drawn to the female vocals on tracks such as 'Angel'. 'Inertia creeps' is a well written and musically excellent track as it does just what its title expresses, ... ...in mind of the black beetle on the cover..eeugh
I still think that this CD is worth buying just for 'teardrop' though, as it shines like the light reflected from such beyond the rest of the music contained here. 'teardrop' can melt your heart, the vocal style so light and airy it breezes through your mind stirring the notions of desire for a love as transient as rain, as lasting yet refreshing and cathartic as the moment tears evaporate in the heat ...
the_critic101 15.01.2008
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Product details
Title
Mezzanine (Limited Edition)
Performer
Massive Attack
Genre
Electronic
Sub Genre
Trip Hop / Big Beat
Release Date
20/04/1998
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1998
Label / Distributor
Wild Bunch/Virgin / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Engineer
Lee Shepherd
Producer
Massive Attack; Neil Davidge
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
724384559922
Catalogue Number
WBRCD 4
Additional notes
Album Notes
Massive Attack: Mushroom, 3-D, Daddy G. Additional personnel: Horace Andy, Elizabeth Fraser, Sara Jay (vocals); Angelo Bruschini (guitar); Neil Davidge (keyboards, samples); Dave Jenkins, Michael Timothy (keyboards); John Harris, Bob Locke, Winston Blissett (bass); Andy Gangadeen (drums). Recorded at Massive Attack and Christchurch Studios, Bristol, England. What do you do when you've already changed the face of music once in a decade? If you're Bristol, UK sonic architects Massive Attack, you refine the model for the times. MEZZANINE, the third album from the producer/DJ crew who, for all intents and purposes, created the genre of trip-hop, is thicker, less spacious and far more guitar-heavy than their previous efforts. Then again, the blue-print remains: hip-hop beats, behemoth bass underpinnings and spare melodic overtones still control Massive Attack's drive. After all, one doesn't expect the inventors to abandon their discoveries just because every pop new jack is onto their gold mine.
Album Reviews
Q (12/99, p.100) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Spin (1/99, p.91) - Ranked #6 on Spin's list of "Top 20 Albums of '98." The Wire (1/99, p.27) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [1998]" Q (6/00, p.80) - Ranked #15 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...Sonic murk and gloom...a punk-hop record about autism..." CMJ (1/11/99, p.7) - "...The grandfathers of trip-hop pulled off yet another wise and wily album, redefining the future shape of pop, soul and trip-hop, while inspiring another wave of artists in the process..." Musician (7/98, pp.84-86) - "...at once the best and most personal album of their career....MEZZANINE shows them creating exotic, bruised backdrops for battered relationships that feel as strangely alienating as a night out with Travis Bickle..." Entertainment Weekly (5/15/98, pp.102-103) - "MEZZANINE is Victorian trip-hop--hulking, clangorous, and dank....It's industrial music for the turn of the century--the 19th century." - Rating: A- Mixmag (1/99, p.49) - Included in Mixmag's "Ten Best Albums of 98" - "...Britain's coolest band..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Angel
2.
Risingson
3.
Teardrop (LP version)
4.
Inertia Creeps
5.
Exchange
6.
Dissolved Girl
7.
Man Next Door
8.
Black Milk
9.
Mezzanine
10.
Group 4
11.
Exchange
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