Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Born out of the rising tensions between each band members, Mezzanine is the miraculous achievement of a band who darkened their tone and refine their production to create this famous nervous project that keeps being one of the most influential albums of all time. Even if we can definitely spot a coherent approach on every song of the album, we can nonetheless feel how fragmented the band was. They are not looking for a clean sound, or joyful melodies like on Blue Lines, leaving behind a big part of their dub influences. Both Exchange tracks have the footprint of Mushroom's work, while Inertia Creeps and Group Four belongs more to 3D and Man Next Door as well as Black Milk to Daddy G. Once again, this is the work of a collective composed by three individuals who fought each others while letting their collaborators (Horace Andy, Elizabeth Fraser) add their own ideas. Massive Attack created somehting chaotic, out of control, an outlet for their conflits that unleashed their troubled artistry.