Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Released in April 1998, Mezzanine was Massive Attack's third album and marked a deliberate turn towards darker, guitar-driven, post-punk-influenced production, partly shaped by tension within the band during recording — it was the last album to feature founding member Mushroom. Widely regarded as a landmark of the trip-hop genre and one of the defining British albums of the 1990s, it broadened what electronic music production could sound like and remains hugely influential on darker, atmospheric electronic music today.

Massive Attack formed in Bristol in the late 1980s out of the Wild Bunch sound system collective, and alongside Portishead and Tricky effectively invented the trip-hop sound that defined the city's music scene. Built around Robert '3D' Del Naja and Grant 'Daddy G' Marshall, with a rotating cast of guest vocalists including Horace Andy, they've spent over three decades making atmospheric, politically engaged music that refuses to sit still stylistically.