Mezzanine Album Review

(taken from April 1999 issue of Rock Sound Magazine)

"From their first album, Blue Lines it was obvious that a powerful, original

talent was emerging in deepest Bristol. However nobody could have

expected how Massive Attack would evolve. Mezzanine, their third album is one of

the scariest bouts of psychosis ever recorded on tape. First track 'Angel' is an insistant

riff that builds unstoppably under Horace Andy's sublime vocals. 'Rising Son' is

claustrophobic and disturbing, 'Tear Drop' with Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser is

beautifully soothing and 'Group Four' is a tour de force of blissed out, whispered

emotion. From guitars and Cure samples, to rolling basslines and spliffed out

paranoia, Mezzanine is a work of true maverick genius."