MASSIVE ATTACK
Mezzanine
WBR4
Circa Records / Virgin Records 1998
11 Tracks. 63mins44secs

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This is definitely the most accomplished effort from the Bristol 3. Never before have they worked so hard at making voice and music melt into one homogenate piece. Vocalists acts like proper musical instruments, they are part of the compositions and not added on top. Horace Andy, now long time collaborator, delivers, on Angel and Man Next Door, an amazing performance. Ex-Cocteau Twins Liz Fraser's contribution, on Teardrop, Black Milk and Group Four, is even more amazing. Unusually comprehensible, she offers here a sensitive, emotional interpretation, very close to her work with her former band mates, but with a more modern sound.
The rest of the album is equally as intense. There is no highlights on Mezzanine. The album is an experience that has to be listen to in its entirety or not at all. As dark as Mezzanine is, Massive Attack avoid the trap of being depressive, and, instead, capture the sound of the creation of life on Earth, and turn it into joy and happiness.  More than Blue Lines or Protection, Mezzanine is an exhilarating record, and ultimately one of the best ones ever made. 

5/5

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TRACKLIST

Angel
Risingson
Teardrop
Inertia Creep
Exchange
Dissolved Girl
Man Next Door
Black Milk
Mezzanine
Group Four
Exchange (Reprise)

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