Mezzanine (album)

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Mezzanine
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Studio album by
Massive Attack
Released20 April 1998 (1998-04-20)
Recorded1997–1998
Genre
Length63:29
Label
Producer
Massive Attack chronology
Protection
(1994)		Mezzanine
(1998)		 Singles 90/98
(1998)
Singles from Mezzanine
  1. "Risingson"
    Released: 7 July 1997
  2. "Teardrop"
    Released: 27 April 1998
  3. "Angel"
    Released: 13 July 1998
  4. "Inertia Creeps"
    Released: 21 September 1998

Mezzanine is the third studio album by English electronic music group Massive Attack, released on 20 April 1998 by Circa and Virgin Records. For the album, the group began to explore a darker aesthetic, and focused on a more atmospheric style influenced by British post-punk, industrial music, hip hop and dub music. [2] The album spawned four singles, “Risingson”, “Teardrop”, “Angel” and “Inertia Creeps”. It’s the group’s first album to not feature the input of rapper Tricky and the last to feature Andrew “Mushroom” Vowles. It also marked the first collaboration between Robert Del Naja and producer Neil Davidge.

Contents

Mezzanine received significant critical acclaim, with many praising the group’s darker sound. It has been named by several publications as one of the best albums of the 1990s and of all time. It is the group’s most commercially successful album, topping the charts in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide

Background and recording

Mezzanine was conceptualised by lead Massive Attack member Robert Del Naja in 1997, who wanted to focus on exploring a darker audiovisual aesthetic with distinct influences. The production of the album was a stressful process; with tensions arising, it led to disagreements that almost split the group, including discouragement from Andrew Vowles. As a demonstration of the project's sound, Del Naja initially produced instrumental demos sampling songs by British post-punk bands such as Wire and Gang of Four, who had been familiar to him as artists he had enjoyed as a teenager. Grant Marshall supported this direction as he wanted to depart from the "urban soul" of their previous album, Protection, but Vowles was sceptical. [3]

The sessions continued with Vowles and Marshall working on bass and drum loops, while Del Naja continued to produce demos. The album was originally set to be released in December 1997, but was delayed by four months, with Del Naja spending most of the time in the studio "making tracks, tearing them apart, f***ing[ sic ] them up, panicking, then starting again." [4] Before the album's release, the group released "Superpredators", a non-album song extensively sampling Siouxsie and the Banshees' song "Metal Postcard", for the soundtrack to the 1997 film The Jackal ; [5] the track was subsequently included on the Japanese version of Mezzanine. [6]

Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles left the group soon after the album's release, due to creative conflicts, while reggae artist and Massive Attack collaborator Horace Andy contributed to the album on multiple songs. [7] The album's working title was Damaged Goods, which was the name of Gang of Four's 1978 debut single. [3]

Mezzanine was a pretty sketchy album in terms of the way we worked, because the band, as reported a lot at that time, were not getting on. So I'd be in the studio working with one of the members and someone else would come in, then the person I had been working with would leave and I'd have to change the track I was working on because they didn't want to work on that track, they wanted to work on something different. Sometimes I'd be working on perhaps four different tracks in one day, which was a pretty messy way to work.

– Neil Davidge in an interview with Sound on Sound . [8]

The cover art depicts a black stag beetle on a white background, photographed by Nick Knight at the Natural History Museum in London. [9]

Composition

Mezzanine has been described as a trip hop [10] and electronica album [1] with moods of "dark claustrophobia" and melancholy. [2] Musically, the album is a major departure from the jazzy and laidback sound of the first two albums, Blue Lines and Protection , invoking the dark undercurrents which had previously only been vaguely present in the group's music. The album's textured and deep tone relies heavily on abstract and ambient sounds, heavy emphasis on bass, and influences from alternative rock.

Similar to their previous albums, several songs use one or more samples, which range from artists typically sampled in trip hop such as Isaac Hayes and various drum breaks, to bands like the Cure and the Velvet Underground. In particular, "Inertia Creeps" samples Turkish çiftetelli music which Del Naja recorded after partying in Istanbul, with his recorded tape subsequently becoming the rhythmic base for the song. [11] In 1998, Manfred Mann sued Massive Attack for unauthorised use of a sample of the song "Tribute" from Manfred Mann's Earth Band's eponymous 1972 album, used on "Black Milk". [12] The song has subsequently appeared as "Black Melt" on later releases and at live performances, with the sample removed. Later digital editions of Mezzanine have retained the original song, with Mann being added to the songwriting credits. [13] [14]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [15]
Entertainment Weekly A− [10]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [16]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [17]
Muzik 10/10 [18]
NME 8/10 [19]
Pitchfork 8.1/10 (1998) [20]
9.3/10 (2017) [21]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [22]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [23]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [24]

Mezzanine entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, [25] and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 4 September 1998 and then double platinum on 22 July 2013. [26] However, it failed to share the same success in North America, peaking at number 60 on the Billboard 200 [27] and number 51 on the Canadian Albums Chart. [28]

The album received significant critical acclaim, which praised the collective's new sound. Rolling Stone 's Barney Hoskyns, although praising the album, pointed to its flaws: "Sometimes rhythm and texture are explored at the expense of memorable tunes, and the absence of the bizarre Tricky [...] only highlights the flat, monotonous rapping of the group's 3-D." [22] Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a two-star honorable mention rating and selected "Risingson" and "Man Next Door" as highlights. [29]

John Bush of AllMusic had positive words for the album's song "Inertia Creeps", saying it "could well be the highlight, another feature for just the core threesome. With eerie atmospherics, fuzz-tone guitars, and a wealth of effects, the song could well be the best production from the best team of producers the electronic world had ever seen." [15]

Years after the album was released, it was placed on several best-of lists in the UK and the United States. In 2000, Q magazine placed Mezzanine at number 15 on its list of "The 100 Greatest British Albums Ever". In 2013, it was placed at 215 on NME 's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 412 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [30] and while it was not included in the 2012 update of the list, it reentered the 2020 update ranked at number 383. [31]

By April 2000, the album had sold 2.5 million copies worldwide. [32] As of February 2010, it had sold 560,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [33]

Mezzanine DNA

On the 20th anniversary of Mezzanine's release, the record was encoded into synthetic DNA—a first for an album. The project was in collaboration with TurboBeads Labs in Switzerland; the digital audio of the album was stored in the form of genetic information. The audio was then compressed using Opus, coded in DNA molecules—with 920,000 short DNA strands containing all the data—and then poured into 5,000 tiny glass beads. [34]

20th anniversary reissue

The album was remastered and reissued for its 20th anniversary. The two-CD anniversary edition was released on 23 August 2019, and comes with a bonus disc of previously unreleased dub mixes by Mad Professor, which were originally intended to be released on a Mezzanine remix album. A triple-LP vinyl version was also planned; initially delayed from its proposed release date, the triple-LP version was eventually cancelled. [35]

In lieu of the vinyl reissue, the Mad Professor remixes were released as a pink 12-inch vinyl single entitled Massive Attack v Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) on 20 September 2019. [36]

The Mad Professor remixes include "Metal Banshee" (an unreleased dub version of "Superpredators", which was a reworked cover of "Metal Postcard" originally by Siouxsie and the Banshees), and "Wire", a track recorded for the soundtrack to the film Welcome to Sarajevo . [37] [38]

Track listing

Standard edition
No.TitleWriter(s)VocalsLength
1."Angel"
 Horace Andy 6:18
2."Risingson"
4:58
3."Teardrop"
Fraser5:29
4."Inertia Creeps"
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
3D5:56
5."Exchange"
(instrumental)4:11
6."Dissolved Girl"
Hawley6:07
7."Man Next Door" John Holt Andy5:55
8."Black Milk"
Fraser6:20
9."Mezzanine"
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
  • 3D
  • Daddy G
5:54
10."Group Four"
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
  • Fraser
  • 3D
  • Fraser
8:13
11."(Exchange)"
  • Hilliard
  • Garson
Andy4:08
Japanese edition bonus track [6]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Superpredators" (The Mad Professor Remix [39] )
5:16
Total length:68:45
20th anniversary reissue disc two: Massive Attack v Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Metal Banshee" (Mad Professor Mix One)
  • McKay
  • Morris
  • Sioux
  • Severin
5:49
2."Angel" (Angel Dust)
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Hinds
  • Vowles
6:04
3."Teardrop" (Mazaruni Dub One)
  • Del Naja
  • Fraser
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
6:05
4."Inertia Creeps" (Floating on Dubwise)
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
6:05
5."Risingson" (Setting Sun Dub Two)
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
4:53
6."Exchange" (Mountain Steppers Dub)
  • Hilliard
  • Garson
5:44
7."Wire" (Leaping Dub)
  • Del Naja
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
5:21
8."Group Four" (Security Forces Dub)
  • Del Naja
  • Fraser
  • Marshall
  • Vowles
8:14

Sample credits

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mezzanine. [41]

Massive Attack

Additional musicians

Technical

Artwork

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Mezzanine
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [82] Platinum70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [83] Gold25,000*
Belgium (BEA) [84] Platinum50,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [85] Gold50,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [86] 2× Platinum40,000‡
France (SNEP) [87] 2× Gold200,000*
Germany (BVMI) [88] Gold250,000^
Italy (FIMI) [89] Gold25,000*
Netherlands (NVPI) [90] Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [91] Platinum15,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [92] Gold25,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [93] Gold50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [94] Platinum50,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [26] 2× Platinum769,864 [95]
United States—560,000 [33]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [96] 2× Platinum2,000,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Mixed at Olympic Studios (London)
  2. ↑ Edited at Metropolis Studios (London)

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