Massive Attack-Mezzanine

Their third album from 1998. I originally had this on CD. When this 20th anniversary edition came outon vinyl I bought it. Still with Daddy G, 3-d and Mushroom,no Tricky, so the raps suffer without him. Horace Andy is back on vocals and three songs feature Elizabeth Fraaser of Cocteau Twins on vocals and Sara Jay on one. Overall the album is rather dark sounding with heavy bass throughout. My fvorites are the three with Fraser singing “Teardrop”,”Black Milk” and “Group Four”. “Exchange” is a soulful instrumental that samples Issac Hayes and the last song “(Exchange)” has Horace Andy adding some vocals. Lots of sounds packed into these 11 songs an interesting listen.

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