Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Vinyl LP 180g): A vinyl record partially pulled from its cardboard sleeve, with the sleeve featuring a red diamond hazard-style graphic and the words 'Massive Attack' in black text. The record itself is black.
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Vinyl LP 180g) The album cover for Massive Attack's 'BLUE LINES, featuring a red diamond-shaped hazard label with a black flame symbol and the band's name in black text over a textured tan background.

Massive Attack - Blue Lines (Vinyl LP 180g)

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Electronic · Downtempo

180g • Reissue • Printed Inner Sleeve

‘Safe From Harm’ starts with the bass, low and circling, before the breakbeat drops in behind it. Nothing hurries after that. ‘One Love’ leans into dub, all echo, with a high, trembling vocal floating over the top. On ‘Blue Lines’ the raps are murmured rather than delivered, half-spoken over a loping beat. Then ‘Unfinished Sympathy’. A full string section sweeps across a hip hop break and the whole record opens up. ‘Daydreaming’ sinks back into haze. ‘Hymn Of The Big Wheel’ closes on a slow reggae sway. Bass still walking.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Blue Lines is the debut album from Massive Attack, the Bristol collective whose mix of hip hop, dub and soul laid the foundations of trip hop. It was first released on 8 April 1991 through the group’s Wild Bunch label, with Circa and Virgin.

The record was produced by Massive Attack with Jonny Dollar. It is built on breakbeats and samples, but its live instrumentation and slow, deliberate pace set it apart from the hip hop it drew on.

Its vocalists give it its range. Shara Nelson sings on ‘Safe From Harm’, ‘Unfinished Sympathy’, ‘Daydreaming’ and ‘Lately’. Reggae singer Horace Andy fronts ‘One Love’, ‘Five Man Army’ and the closing ‘Hymn Of The Big Wheel’, and Tony Bryan sings ‘Be Thankful For What You’ve Got’, a cover of the William DeVaughn soul song. The raps come from the group’s own members, a young Tricky among them.

The artwork is by Michael Nash with Robert Del Naja.

This edition is the 2016 European reissue on 180g black vinyl, with all nine tracks on a single LP.

From here the story continues through Protection and Mezzanine, and Blue Lines sits naturally alongside Nightmares On Wax and the slower end of Bonobo

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Safe From Harm
  2. One Love
  3. Blue Lines
  4. Be Thankful For What You’ve Got
  5. Five Man Army

Side B

  1. Unfinished Sympathy
  2. Daydreaming
  3. Lately
  4. Hymn Of The Big Wheel
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Wild Bunch / Virgin
Barcode

60255700960

Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
8 April 1991
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