After Massive Attack released their landmark album Blue Lines in 1990 and its follow-up Protection, critics and audiences were left wondering exactly what to expect next from a group that was as fascinating as it was unpredictable.
The answer dropped like a bomb in 1998, with the release of the group's masterpiece, Mezzanine.
The album was and still is, a brilliant and seemingly impossible mix of sheer atmospheric beauty and threatening darkness. It boasts two songs which went on to become hits long after the initial release of the record: the gorgeous and malevolent Angel, and the lush and moving Teardrop, which audiences now know as the theme from Fox's hit show House.
Mezzanine is a near-perfect album -- and easily one of the best of the '90s.
My pick tonight is the album's second track: Risingson.
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