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On their third recording, Mezzanine, Massive Attack manage to jack it up without getting much louder. Retaining the deep, dubby bass lines that underpin most of 1991's Blue Lines and 1995's Protection, the Bristol, England, collective adds snarling guitar drones, Middle Eastern vocal accents, and electric keyboards to their sonic landscape. The result is alluring and deliberately unobtrusive, though slightly oblique, as Elizabeth Fraser (of the Cocteau Twins) and regulars Horace Andy and Sarah Jay croon gentle tales atop this sonic concoction. "Teardrop" and "Risingson" -- which features a sample of the Velvet's "I Found a Reason" -- are among the highlights, and though they don't quite match the cool fire of Blue Lines's best track, "Unfinished Sympathy," this album is more consistent than its predecessors, and innovative throughout.
Condition:Brand new factory sealed.
TRACK LISTINGS
1 Angel 6:19
2 Risingson 4:58
3 Teardrop 5:30
4 Inertia Creeps 5:57
5 Exchange 4:11
6 Dissolved Girl 6:06
7 Man Next Door 5:56
8 Black Milk 6:21
9 Mezzanine 5:56
10 Group Four 8:12
11 (Exchange) 4:14
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