:Mezzanine (album)

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.{{cite magazine |title=Are We A Fucking Punk Band Now?|author=Cavanagh, David |magazine=Q |date=January 1999}}

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, {{sic|f***ing}} them up, panicking, then starting again."{{cite web |last=Hanson |first=Amy |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/risingson-mt0007774139 |title=Risingson – Massive Attack |website=AllMusic |access-date=25 June 2013}} 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;{{cite web |url=http://www.inflightdata.com/superpredators.html |title=Massive Attack Discography – Tune Info + Lyrics – superpredators |work=inflightdata.com |access-date=30 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713030438/http://www.inflightdata.com/superpredators.html |archive-date=13 July 2011}} the track was subsequently included on the Japanese version of Mezzanine.Massive Attack – Mezzanine. Virgin – VJCP-25360. CD, Album Japan.

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/andy_horace/bio.jhtml|title=Horace Andy : Biography|publisher=VH1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050201004536/http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/andy_horace/bio.jhtml|archive-date=1 February 2005|url-status=dead}} The album's working title was Damaged Goods, which was the name of Gang of Four's 1978 debut single.

{{Quote box |quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |quote=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.|source=– Neil Davidge in an interview with Sound on Sound.{{cite web|last=Humberstone |first=Nigel |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr03/articles/massiveattck.asp |title=Massive Attack – Neil Davidge: Recording 100th Window |work=Sound on Sound |date=April 2003 |access-date=25 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827064605/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Apr03/articles/massiveattck.asp |archive-date=27 August 2013}} |align=right|width=33%}}

The cover art depicts a black stag beetle on a white background, photographed by Nick Knight at the Natural History Museum in London.{{cite web |url=https://longlivevinyl.net/2018/11/28/story-behind-sleeve-17-massive-attack-mezzanine/ |title=Massive Attack's Mezzanine – The Story Behind The Sleeve |website=Long Live Vinyl |date=28 November 2018 |access-date=22 May 2021}}

Mezzanine has been described as a trip hop and electronica album with moods of "dark claustrophobia" and melancholy. 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.{{cite web | url=http://innerviews.org/inner/massive.html | title=Massive Attack – Massive aggressive | work=Innerviews | accessdate=10 July 2013 | author=Prasad, Anil|quote="The music came from nights out in Istanbul. There's some mad music there at some belly dancing shows which are pretty embarrassingly tourist-orientated. But the music was fucking really cool. I got some tapes and I was in the studio when we were working on this music. [...] [W]e started writing this new beat from it and so it was really cool, d'ya-know-what-I-mean?"}} 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".{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/510484/manfred-mann-sues-massive-attack/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220012221/http://www.mtv.com/news/510484/manfred-mann-sues-massive-attack/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 December 2014 |title=Manfred Mann Sues Massive Attack |publisher=MTV News |date=30 December 1998 |access-date=27 June 2015}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/mezzanine/724466069 |title=Mezzanine by Massive Attack |date=20 April 1998 |publisher=iTunes Store |location=United States |access-date=1 July 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.deezer.com/en/track/3129753 |title=Black Milk – Massive Attack |publisher=Deezer |access-date=1 July 2018 |url-access=subscription}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/mezzanine-mw0000032129 |title=Mezzanine – Massive Attack |website=AllMusic |access-date=10 January 2013 |last=Bush |first=John}}

| rev2 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev2Score = A−{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/article/1998/05/15/mezzanine |title=Mezzanine |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=15 May 1998 |access-date=10 December 2011 |last=Mirkin |first=Steven}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news |title=As dark as it gets |newspaper=The Guardian |date=10 April 1998 |last=Bennun |first=David}}

| rev4 = Los Angeles Times

| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-may-10-ca-48450-story.html |title=Massive Attack, 'Mezzanine,' Virgin |work=Los Angeles Times |date=10 May 1998 |access-date=13 April 2016 |last=Weingarten |first=Marc |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426181604/http://articles.latimes.com/1998/may/10/entertainment/ca-48450 |archive-date=26 April 2016 |url-status=live}}

| rev5 = Muzik

| rev5Score = 10/10{{cite magazine |title=Massive Attack: Mezzanine (Virgin) |magazine=Muzik |issue=36 |date=May 1998 |last=Newsome |first=Rachel |page=71}}

| rev6 = NME

| rev6Score = 8/10{{cite magazine |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000263reviews.html |title=Massive Attack – Mezzanine |magazine=NME |date=18 April 1998 |access-date=9 February 2016 |last=Cameron |first=Keith |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817094948/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000263reviews.html |archive-date=17 August 2000 |url-status=dead}}

| rev7 = Pitchfork

| rev7score = 8.1/10 (1998){{Cite web |last=DiCrescenzo |first=Brent |title=Massive Attack: Mezzanine: Pitchfork Review |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/massive-attack/mezzanine.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000816181643/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/m/massive-attack/mezzanine.shtml |archive-date=August 16, 2000 |access-date=February 4, 2023 |website=Pitchfork}}
9.3/10 (2017){{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22703-mezzanine/ |title=Massive Attack: Mezzanine |work=Pitchfork |date=8 January 2017 |access-date=8 January 2017 |last=Patrin |first=Nate}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/massiveattack/albums/album/237405/review/6067962/mezzanine |title=Massive Attack: Mezzanine |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=28 May 1998 |access-date=10 January 2013 |last=Hoskyns |first=Barney |author-link=Barney Hoskyns |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114110724/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/massiveattack/albums/album/237405/review/6067962/mezzanine |archive-date=14 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}

| rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev9Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Massive Attack |last=Kot |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Kot |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/517 517–18]|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Floored genius |magazine=Uncut |issue=12 |date=May 1998 |last=Lewis |first=Simon |page=84}}

}}

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

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." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a two-star honorable mention rating and selected "Risingson" and "Man Next Door" as highlights.{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=2305 |chapter=Massive Attack: Mezzanine |access-date=9 February 2016 |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |year=2000 |isbn=0-312-24560-2|title-link=Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s}}

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."

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".{{cite web |url=http://www.nme.com/photos/the-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-300-201/324403 |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 300–201 |work=NME |date=24 October 2013 |access-date=27 June 2015}} In 2003, the album was ranked number 412 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time",{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626741/412_mezzanine |title=412) Mezzanine |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=1 November 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330075004/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6626741/412_mezzanine |archive-date=30 March 2009 |url-status=dead |access-date=10 December 2011}} and while it was not included in the 2012 update of the list, it reentered the 2020 update ranked at number 383.{{cite magazine |title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time |date=2020-09-22 |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517140442/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/massive-attack-mezzanine-1062850/ |archive-date=2023-05-17 |url-status=live |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/massive-attack-mezzanine-1062850/}}

By April 2000, the album had sold 2.5 million copies worldwide.{{Cite web |title=News |url=http://www.red-lines.co.uk/news2000.html |date=20 April 2000 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=Red Lines}} As of February 2010, it had sold 560,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.{{cite magazine|last=Sexton|first=Paul|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/959308/massive-attack-prove-new-album-was-worth-the-wait|title=Massive Attack Prove New Album Was Worth The Wait|magazine=Billboard|date=19 February 2010}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/massive-attack-encoding-album-into-dna/|title = Massive Attack Encoding Album into DNA| website=Pitchfork |date = 20 April 2018}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/massive-attack-mezzanine-20th-anniversary-deluxe-on-2cd-and-3lp/|title=Massive Attack / Mezzanine 20th anniversary deluxe on 2CD and 3LP {{!}} superdeluxeedition|date=14 September 2018 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-22}}

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.{{cite web |title=Massive Attack V Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) – Discogs |website=Discogs |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/14153302 |access-date=11 February 2020}}

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.{{cite web|first=Tim|last=Peacock|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/mad-professor-massive-attack-teardrop/|title=Listen to Mad Professor's 'Mazaruni Dub One' Mix of Massive Attack's 'Teardrop'|publisher=udiscovermusic.com|date=9 November 2018|access-date=4 December 2018}}{{cite web|first=Christian|last=Eede|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/26959-massive-attack-mad-professor-mezzanine-dubs|title=Massive Attack To Release Mezzanine Dub Version|website=The Quietus|date=16 August 2019|access-date=8 October 2019}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Standard edition

| extra_column = Vocals

| title1 = Angel

| writer1 = {{hlist|Robert Del Naja|Grantley Marshall|Andrew Vowles|Horace Hinds}}

| length1 = 6:18

| extra1 = Horace Andy

| title2 = Risingson

| writer2 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Lou Reed|Pete Seeger}}

| length2 = 4:58

| extra2 = {{hlist|3D|Daddy G}}

| title3 = Teardrop

| writer3 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Elizabeth Fraser}}

| length3 = 5:29

| extra3 = Fraser

| title4 = Inertia Creeps

| writer4 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length4 = 5:56

| extra4 = 3D

| title5 = Exchange

| writer5 = {{hlist|Bob Hilliard|Mort Garson}}

| extra5 = (instrumental)

| length5 = 4:11

| title6 = Dissolved Girl

| writer6 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Sarah Jay Hawley|Matt Schwartz}}

| length6 = 6:07

| extra6 = Hawley

| title7 = Man Next Door

| writer7 = John Holt

| length7 = 5:55

| extra7 = Andy

| title8 = Black Milk

| writer8 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Fraser|Manfred Mann}}

| length8 = 6:20

| extra8 = Fraser

| title9 = Mezzanine

| writer9 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length9 = 5:54

| extra9 = {{hlist|3D|Daddy G}}

| title10 = Group Four

| writer10 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Fraser}}

| length10 = 8:13

| extra10 = {{hlist|3D|Fraser}}

| title11 = (Exchange)

| writer11 = {{hlist|Hilliard|Garson}}

| length11 = 4:08

| extra11 = Andy

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese edition bonus track

| total_length = 68:45

| title12 = Superpredators

| note12 = The Mad Professor Remix{{cite web|url=http://inflightdata.com/radiopromo.html#superpredators|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040309085509/http://inflightdata.com/radiopromo.html#superpredators|archive-date=9 March 2004|title=massive attack discography – miscellaneous – radio/promo singles|website=inflightdata.com|access-date=13 October 2020}}

| writer12 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles|Siouxsie Sioux|John McKay|Steven Severin|Kenny Morris}}

| length12 = 5:16

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = 20th anniversary reissue disc two: Massive Attack v Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98)

| title1 = Metal Banshee

| note1 = Mad Professor Mix One

| writer1 = {{hlist|McKay|Morris|Sioux|Severin}}

| length1 = 5:49

| title2 = Angel

| note2 = Angel Dust

| writer2 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Hinds|Vowles}}

| length2 = 6:04

| title3 = Teardrop

| note3 = Mazaruni Dub One

| writer3 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Fraser|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length3 = 6:05

| title4 = Inertia Creeps

| note4 = Floating on Dubwise

| writer4 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length4 = 6:05

| title5 = Risingson

| note5 = Setting Sun Dub Two

| writer5 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length5 = 4:53

| title6 = Exchange

| note6 = Mountain Steppers Dub

| writer6 = {{hlist|Hilliard|Garson}}

| length6 = 5:44

| title7 = Wire

| note7 = Leaping Dub

| writer7 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length7 = 5:21

| title8 = Group Four

| note8 = Security Forces Dub

| writer8 = {{hlist|Del Naja|Fraser|Marshall|Vowles}}

| length8 = 8:14

| total_length =

}}

• "Risingson" contains a sample of "I Found a Reason" by the Velvet Underground.
• "Exchange" and "(Exchange)" contain samples of "Our Day Will Come" by Isaac Hayes.
• "Man Next Door" contains a sample of "10:15 Saturday Night" by the Cure, as well as an uncredited sample of Led Zeppelin's version of "When the Levee Breaks".{{cite magazine |last=Cardew |first=Bendate |url=https://djmag.com/features/how-massive-attacks-mezzanine-predicted-new-era-british-music |title=How Massive Attack's 'Mezzanine' predicted a new era for British music |magazine=DJ Mag |date=5 July 2023 |access-date=20 July 2024}}

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mezzanine.{{cite AV media notes |title=Mezzanine |type=liner notes |author=Massive Attack |publisher=Virgin Records |year=1998 |id=WBRCD4}}

• Robert Del Naja – arrangements, vocals, programming, keyboards, samples
• Grant Marshall – arrangements, vocals, programming, keyboards, samples
• Andrew Vowles – arrangements, programming, keyboards, samples

• Neil Davidge – arrangements, programming, keyboards, samples
• Horace Andy – vocals
• Elizabeth Fraser – vocals
• Sara Jay Hawley – vocals
• Angelo Bruschini – guitars
• Jon Harris, Bob Locke, Winston Blissett – bass guitars
• Andy Gangadeen – drums
• Dave Jenkins, Michael Timothy – additional keyboards

• Massive Attack – production
• Neil Davidge – production
• Jan Kybert – Pro Tools
• Lee Shepherd – engineering
• Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing{{efn|Mixed at Olympic Studios (London)}}
• Jan Kybert – mixing assistance
• P-Dub – mixing assistance
• Tim Young – editing{{efn|Edited at Metropolis Studios (London)}}

• Nick Knight – photography
• Tom Hingston – art direction, design
• Robert Del Naja – art direction, design

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|artist=Massive Attack|title=Mezzanine|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1998|certyear=2000|certref={{cite book |last=Salaverrie |first=Fernando |date=September 2005 |url=http://www.mediafire.com/file/7q55521w7go6vh6/Spanish+Certifications+for+2000-2002.pdf |title=Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 |language=es |edition=1st |location=Madrid |publisher=Fundación Autor/SGAE |page=954 |isbn=84-8048-639-2 |access-date=27 December 2018}}}}

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Massive Attack|title=Mezzanine|award=Platinum|number=2|type=album|id=4247-2279-2|date=22 July 2013|salesamount=769,864|salesref={{cite web|url=https://www.musicweek.com/publishing/read/round-hill-music-acquires-catalogue-of-two-founding-members-of-massive-attack/082533|publisher=Music Week|first=George|last=Garner|title=Round Hill Music acquires catalogue of two founding members of Massive Attack|date=4 February 2021|accessdate=28 December 2022}}|refname="bpi"}}

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