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Excellent. If you like to hear to different music genres, you have to try Massive Attack. I tried to listen to Massive Attack more than 10 years ago, when I was around my 20's. To be honest, I wasn't ready. Now I am enjoying every single song from this band, all rhythm and sounds. And I can understand how these guys made a huge evolution to the music.
Are you ready for Massive Attack?
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This is further proof that electronic music has the human element, that it's true music, and no ignoramus has the right to call all electronic music lifeless and unemotional (rap counts, Depeche Mode counts, Nine Inch Nails counts, etc). Maybe those people have a lack of rhythm. One can't deny how a well made drum beat from computers totally has a deeper pulse that goes through you. Oh well, truly those who know the joys of how rhythm work revel in it's majesty, while the others will wallow with their tortured losers screaming nonsense ______ into a microphone. Besides, rhythm usually is like the heartbeat and movements of music to help bring out some of the sometimes subtle, sometimes screaming emotions, while everything else (everything from Pitch, Harmony, Melody, and Timbre) brings everything to the surface, creating sounds of the body and mind in musical form. Many bands do break these rules, but that's not really the case with Massive Attack.
When used correctly, electronics will bring out the soul. It's merely
another instrument. Saxophones are made out of hollowed brass. Gongs are sheet metal melded into a circle. Electric Guitars are nothing but circuits and ELECTRONICS. Only when used correctly can electronics become musical. Stairway To Heaven's solo, a solo most people swear it makes them weep, was played on an ELECTRIC GUITAR MADE OUT OF ELECTRONICS! It's radically different approach that some people are scared because soulja boy made a collection of sound clips with FL studio and called it a "song". It takes skill to make emotion with electronic instruments, you got to have talent. Cleary those who say they can make any type of electronic music in 10 seconds are lying. Machine's may have no life, but electronic instruments aren't merely machines, their musical instruments made solely from electronics. No instruments have life, and when the material to make the instrument is made in something else or just sitting there, it has no life. Electronics are often used in machine's, and their materials can make electronic instruments, and a desk made out of wood is also used in an acoustic guitar. Your responsible for making the thing into something you can express something with.
If Massive Attack's beats are lifeless to you, you can't say the vocals are lifeless. Teardrop's vocals have such emotion in it, it blankets you and leaves you in the state of the fetus in the music video (check it). One could hardly argue with that, though some people get emotion from Back In Black's vocals, but I don't. So were all on the same boat. Just think of that before you automatically dismiss them.
This album is dark. Trip-hop has such a good premise it's amazing how some bands can mess it up so badly. Massive Attack, being the premire Trip-Hop group, were the best (Haven't heard Portished yet, though). On their third album, Massive Attack completely took a 180 and created darker music. It still hasn't lost anything, although this album isn't as great as Blue Lines. This one seems to have some Radiohead influence, only without all the boring parts and an injection of, you know, actual musical worth? There's not really much to say in the music, actually. It still will most likely invoke something in you. Great cd, nothing much else to say.
So if you are an actual fan of music, then I reccomend Massive Attack.
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This is one of the most amazing ablums I've heard in a while. The song "Teardrop" alone is worth the price of this CD.
It provides you with a glorious landscape and much of it can be attributed to the former Cocteau Twins chantuesse Elizabeth Fraser. Massive Attack owes much of the album's success to this woman. Without her, this album would have gone virtually unnoticeable. She is nothing short of a luminary on this album and Massive Attack knows it. Any song she sings on including Black Milk and Group Four are the most compelling on the album. Elizabeth Fraser is a perfect fit for Massive Attack. And it shows.
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'Mezzanine' is one of the best albums recorded. I can just sit and chill and listen to it over and over again and not get tired of it. A definite staple, in my opinion, to any music collection. There's only one song I don't like, and that's "Teardrop," but I can't get enough of the other tracks. :]
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This album is so sexy... there is no other way to describe it... I am sure a lot of kids born since the year 1998 were conceived to Inertia or Mezzanine or Group Four!
This is definitely one of the best albums I have ever heard and probably will ever hear.
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