Massive Attack - Protection (Vinyl LP 180g)
180g Vinyl • 2016 Reissue
The title track runs nearly eight minutes, a slow breakbeat and a looping guitar figure under a voice that barely rises above a whisper. ‘Karmacoma’ sinks lower, two voices trading murmured lines over a hazy, Eastern-tinged loop. ‘Weather Storm’ is all piano, drifting over a drum loop for close to five minutes. ‘Spying Glass’ goes deep into dub, bass heavy and swimming in echo. ‘Sly’ brings in strings. ‘Light My Fire’ closes the record live, a reggae cover with the crowd audible underneath.
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About the album.
Protection is the second album from Massive Attack, the Bristol collective’s follow-up to Blue Lines, a trip hop record that blends dub, soul and electronic music, released on Circa on 26 September 1994.
Produced by the band with Nellee Hooper, it brings in a rotating cast of voices: Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl on the title track and ‘Better Things’, Tricky on ‘Karmacoma’ and ‘Eurochild’, Nicolette on ‘Three’ and ‘Sly’, and Horace Andy on ‘Spying Glass’ and the closing live cover of The Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’. Two instrumentals, ‘Weather Storm’ and ‘Heat Miser’, sit between them.
The album won the Brit Award for Best Dance Act. It was the last Massive Attack album to feature Tricky, who went on to a solo career, and the following year Mad Professor reworked the whole record as the dub album No Protection.
This 2016 reissue on Circa presents the ten tracks on a single 180-gram vinyl LP, part of a campaign that returned the band’s early albums to vinyl after several years when they were hard to find.
Blue Lines before it and Mezzanine after complete the band’s essential early run, and their more recent collaboration with Tom Waits, Boots On The Ground, shows them still pulling in unexpected voices.
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Sleeve
Standard sleeve
Vinyl colour
Black
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0602557009620
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Condition
Original release
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