Mezzanine [VINYL]

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After an incredibly long wait, with several push-backs to the 2018 release date (and complete cancellation of the 3-LP special edition due to artwork materials), it was with some relief that this 2CD set arrived yesterday! I don't understand how that song didn't make it on the album, or just get released as some sort of B-side or something.

The inter band friction created some gems; 'Inertia Creeps' is drenched in menace, and 'Teardrop' features the ethereal vocals of Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins - both of these a benchmark not just for the band, but for the trip-hop genre. With Mezzanine, however, the party had ended; revisiting the murky soundscapes so favoured by former partner and fellow Bristolian Tricky, the comeback single "Rising Son" muttering edgily about "cheap beer filled with crocodile tears", over the deepest bass.

The artwork feels a little less than deluxe, to be honest, as it doesn't really offer anything more than the hardback original edition (similar booklet). Renowned graffiti artist [a151718], known then as 3-D, played a significant role in adopting and popularizing the Massive Attack slogan. Review: Given Massive Attack's background, it was almost inevitable that they'd release a dub overhaul of one of their albums at one point. All 8 of the Mad Professor remixes included here are previously unreleased and include his dub mixes of 2 tracks not originally featured on Mezzanine but from the same period; “Metal Banshee”, a dub version of ‘Superpredators’ which was a cover of Siouxie and the Banshee’s ‘Metal Postcard’, and “Wire”, a track they recorded for the soundtrack of the film Welcome to Sarajevo. I consider myself lucky as coloured plastic discs, particularly dark colours, can be troublesome (and the first reviewer here has experienced unacceptable playback issues, possibly as a result).

Your speakers and the way they are positioned in the room will be tested hard on Angel, Black Milk and Group Four! Universal Music will issue a 20th anniversary reissue of Massive Attack‘s third studio album Mezzanine. Can’t make my mind up if CD sounds better than the vinyl so it must be close, sounds great on either. We are available to book for live shows and events, as well as bespoke licensed music for videos, commercials, TV, film and more. every part of this album is indispensable; absolute masterpiece, and the pinnacle of the trip-hop genre, imo.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. If you like Mezzanine, take the plunge and splurge on it ;) I was unsure at first and bounced around the idea for over a week. I already had a high grade mp3 and just wanted the record for better sound, but I LOVE the idea that they're doing this for albums I DON'T already have. This album is the band's most commercially successful to date it went to the number one spot in the UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand album charts. Some mechanical issues; Side "A" groove is slightly off center, not causing audible issues, but frustrating.

To celebrate the album’s twentieth anniversary, Mezzanine has been remastered by Tim Young at Metropolis who has worked with the band for over twenty years. It's packed with highlights, from the spaced-out, dub-house rework of "Spying Glass" ("I Spy"), to the ricocheting percussion hits and twinkling pianos of "Weather Storm (Cool Monsoon)", and creepy, delay-laden string surges of "Eternal Feedback (Sly)". After numerous bootlegs over the years, Virgin have done the right thing and presented this official reissue of Mezzanine to appease fans of Massive Attack and it's clear the LP has lost none of it's bewitching power.By 'proper' I mean with its full dynamic range (not like their 2012 mix/master of Blue lines, where the dynamics are squashed into a limiter, conversely). Or if you don't like the term trip-hop—as nearly none of the associated artists seem to lol—it's at least a quintessential of 90s music in the general realm of hip-hop/electronic music.

Is there anyone else here that would love it if they released some sort of proper 24bit-96kHz+ digital format? Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.I actually missed out on the earlier releases, because I was too deep into hip-hop in the early nineties and I did not consider massive attack's sound to be hip-hop enough! It's just a masterpiece that stands the test of time, imo, and it's a shame that there doesn't seem to be a truly high quality version, when the vinyls all seem to suffer from sibilance—maybe others have had better luck, idk. Even if you own the original version already, it's well worth picking up this special edition just for that alone. which are one of the most indispensable qualities of this album—Liz Frazer and Sara Jay—but that's not to discredit the other vocalists. That time came in 1995, when British sound system legend Mad Professor - responsible for some of the greatest UK-made dub records of all time - put his distinctive twist on Protection.