Massive Attack Mezzanine 2LP Vinil 180 Gramas Virgin V40 Metropolis 2014 EU
Título: Mezzanine
Número de Catálogo: 0602537540433
Editora: Virgin
Reeditado por: Virgin
Código de Barras: 602537540433
Ano da edição original: 1998
Ano da reedição: 2014
Quantidade de discos: 2
Rotações por minuto: 33⅓ rpm
Tamanho do disco: 12"
Gramagem do Vinil: 180gr
Peso Total do Artigo: 525gr
País prensagem: Alemanha
Produzido para o Mercado de: EU
Adicionado ao catálogo em: 6 Maio, 2016
Colecção: 40 Anos de Virgin Music
Nota: Nunca elegível para descontos adicionais
Vinyl Gourmet Club: Não
Formados a partir dos lendários The Wild Bunch Sound System, o grupo combina elementos de hip hop, funk, dub e rock num package impressionante. Mezzanine é o bem sucedido terceiro album do grupo, um disco mais sombrio que os seus antecessores, com as samples engenhosas e teclas etéreas dos Massive Attack suportadas pelas vozes de Sara Jay, Horace Andy, and Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins).
Bristol based trip hop pioneers Massive Attack are a hugely influential force in British music. Formed out of the legendary Wild Bunch Soundsystem the group combined elements of hip hop, funk, dub and rock into one stunning package. Massive Attack released the three stunning '90s albums Blue Lines (1991), Protection (1994) and Mezzanine (1998) while only producing the two albums 100th Window (2003) and Heligoland (2010) in the subsequent 15 years.
The Neil Davidge-produced Mezzanine is the group's third full-length and most commercially successful album to date reaching the #1 spot in the UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. A darker record than its two predecessors, Massive Attack's crafty samples and ethereal keyboards are supported here wonderfully by an imaginative studio band and guest vocalists Sara Jay, Horace Andy, and Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins).
From the opening trio of hits "Angel," "Risingson" and "Teardrop" to the mid-tempo numbers "Man Next Door" and "Black Milk," Massive Attack is in top form on Mezzanine and as uncompromising as ever.
"Increasingly ignored amidst the exploding trip-hop scene, Massive Attack finally returned in 1998 with Mezzanine, a record immediately announcing not only that the group was back, but that they'd recorded a set of songs just as singular and revelatory as on their debut, almost a decade back. It all begins with a stunning one-two-three-four punch: "Angel," "Risingson," "Teardrop," and "Inertia Creeps." Augmenting their samples and keyboards with a studio band, Massive Attack open with "Angel," a stark production featuring pointed beats and a distorted bassline that frames the vocal (by group regular Horace Andy) and a two-minute flame-out with raging guitars. "Risingson" is a dense, dark feature for Massive Attack themselves (on production as well as vocals), with a kitchen sink's worth of dubby effects and reverb.
"Teardrop" introduces another genius collaboration -- with Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins -- from a production unit with a knack for recruiting gifted performers. The blend of earthy with ethereal shouldn't work at all, but Massive Attack pull it off in fine fashion. "Inertia Creeps" could well be the highlight, another feature for just the core threesome. With eerie atmospherics, fuzz-tone guitars, and a wealth of effects, the song could well be the best production from the best team of producers the electronic world had ever seen. Obviously, the rest of the album can't compete, but there's certainly no sign of the side-two slump heard on Protection, as both Andy and Fraser return for excellent, mid-tempo tracks ("Man Next Door" and "Black Milk," respectively)." ~ John Bush, All Music
Lista de Faixas:
LP1
1. Angel
2. Risingson
3. Teardrop
4. Inertia Creeps
5. Exchange
6. Dissolved Girl
LP2
1. Man Next Door
2. Black Milk
3. Mezzanine
4. Group Four
5. (Exchange)
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