Mezzanine by Massive Attack

Pros: Moments of sound, Moments of vocals
Cons: Monotonous, Frequently incomprehensible or thuggish, Frontloaded

Even as I write this review of the Massive Attack album "Mezzanine," I find myself thinking that at some point I am likely to look back at my reviews of the albums of Massive Attack and thing "I was a bit hard on them." I doubt this will be any ...

Pros: All round excellent trip-hop
Cons: Not everyone will like this album

I will readily admit that I am not a huge fan of trip-hop music. To me, I just find a lot of it very depressing to listen to and I also thought that in order to appreciate this musical genre, you have to be really high on some drug. This is one of the ...

Pros: Moody, haunting
Cons: They could never again reach this height of brilliance

The second-best of all trip-hop albums (the first being Portishead's "Dummy"), "Mezzanine" is a lush ...

Pros: All the warmth of deep space, all the comfort of a haunted house
Cons: "Exchange" and "(Exchange)"

I am not an easy man to spook. Always attracted to the bleak and bizarre, I have lived my life enchanted by the ghost story and the horror soundtrack. Mind you, that's not ALL I live for, but a good number of the CDs, movies, and books I own could safely ...

Pros: Production, Arrangements, Live Instrumentation, Presentation, Vocals, & Samples.
Cons: None.

1994's Protection helped Massive Attack achieve considerable attention as the trip-hop sound they had created was now becoming a new sub genre that spawned a slew of acts. Though the collective that features 3D, Daddy G, and Mushroom were not ...

Pros: Great electronic + "trip-hop" sound; Elizabeth Fraser vocal, even rap is great
Cons: It's a very dark album

Amazing, how much new you can hear [and learn] when you go beyond radio format. However the basic concept of music taste is formed at the early age with the appropriate radio station. When I was 16 my favorite radio station [that by the way I was going...

Pros: One of the very best releases of the 20th century, period
Cons: It put an end to the collaborative dynamics of MASSIVE ATTACK

Mezzanine is an album to commit suicide to. One of the most depressive statements ever from Bristol, the smoky slave port of British Empire, currently ruled by dealers, pushers, immigrants relegated to slums and cyberpunks. Needless to say, it was ...

Pros: Dark, creepy musical virtuosity spiked with sexiness and maybe some downers
Cons: Becomes musically homogeneous towards the end, not good for everyday listening

Massive Attack is... Robert Del Naja ("3D"), Grant Marshall ("Daddy G"), Andrew Vowles ("Mushroom"), Neil Davidge - Production, vocals, keyboards, sampling, etc. Horace Andy, Elizabeth Fraser, Sara Jay - Guest vocals Angelo Bruschini - Guitars ...

Pros: The pure darkness of it all.
Cons: The loss of Andrew 'Mushroom' Vowles due to his dislike of it.

No doubt after 1995's protection, Trip-Hop pioneers Massive Attack had come to something of a crossroad in their musical career as 1998's Mezzanine is very different to their earlier stuff. This becomes evident as soon as the incredibly tense opener...

Pros: Spare, beautiful music
Cons: They've left unused room for one more song on the CD

Massive Attack's Mezzanine is a beautiful album, flat out. I am a longtime fan of Elizabeth Fraser (formerly of the Cocteau Twins) anyway, but I bought this album because a co-worker was playing it and I found myself completely hypnotized by it....

Pros: The production is a vast improvement Massive Attack's previous albums.
Cons: Too many ill-fitting female vocals.

At last. Massive Attack have finally been given the dubby treatment that their music has for so long craved. In the past, their production has been at a kind of halfway point - on the verge of being dubby, but somehow holding back. There is no such...

Pros: Original sounding, hair raisingly good, Intelligent beautiful electronic music
Cons: Seasonal album - Too Dark natured to feel it in the summer

When I first heard Mezzanine I was just 14 years old and was just getting in to the world of alternative music, lazy days just kicking back to john peel on BBC radio 1. This album till this day still has an affect on me that has changed my entire...

Pros: elizabeth fraser!
Cons: 18 bucks! and it's cheaper now!

Yes! A collaborative effort 'tween Massive Attack and Elizabeth Fraser. Nifty. If you've never heard Fraser, she's got a sugar sweet voice like an angel. Her vocals are featured on a commercial for some perfume now, it's from her days...

Pros: There's not many albums that sound this threatening...
Cons: That can be a problem, specially if you like to scare people...

...if you ever did (danced with the devil in the pale moonlight, that is) then i reccomend you put this album on, cue it to the first song (Angel) and then invite Mr 666 o'er to the dance floor.

Borrow the atmosphere prevalent in most Edgar...

Pros: Dark, dense and riveting
Cons: It may prove to be an acquired taste for some

Massive Attack's third outing, Mezzanine certainly doesn't disappoint, and though it may lack the novelty of their groundbreaking classic Blue Lines, it still manages to come up with some awfully compelling sonic textures. The ominous bass...