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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | October 14th 15 |
When people talk about Massive Attack, usually only two albums tend to come up in conversation: Mezzanine, which is glorious perfection of craft, and Blue Lines, which was the enthralling beginning to trip-hop. People often forget about or overlook the link between those two records, which is Protection. Musically, it is a pretty tight affair. The first seven tracks are decidedly minimal, which establishes the link to Blue Lines, but the last three, including a live cover of The Doors' "Light My Fire" are all much more expansive and large in scope, foreshadowing Mezzanine quite nicely. As far as album highlights go, the opener/title track is an undeniable trip-hop masterpiece, and the mesmerizing and oddly catchy "Weather Storm" is another wonderful track. In all, it's an always good, sometimes brilliant, and fairly influential piece of trip-hop, one that unfortunately tends to be an afterthought.
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| 2.5 average | Gene Gol-Jonsson CONTRIBUTOR | May 17th 24 |
Massive Attack's middle child that got the least amount of love from both the artist and the audience (we don't count the post 90s releases). The duo is banking on a chilled out, largely barebones cosmetics, muffled mix, prioritising vibes over workable writing.
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| 4.5 superb | AggravatedYeti | February 10th 08 |
Essentially taking their successes from 'Blue Lines' and running, Massive Attack's second album 'Protection', is a deep, beautiful album. With 9 tracks that will floor you, and well, 'Light My Fire'. 'Protection', 'Euro Child', 'Sly' and 'Three' are fantastic. The diverse group of brilliant Brits, again, were able to create a fantastic, fluid success with their mix of deep dub beats, evil distortions and truly beautiful voices.
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| 4.0 excellent | slagun | May 19th 24 |
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