Protection

Performer: Massive Attack
Artist: Tracey Thorn; Tricky; Horace Andy
Producer: Nellee Hooper...
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Massive Attack: Mushroom, 3-D, Daddy G. Additional personnel: Nicolette, Tracey Thorn, Tricky, Horace Andy (vocals); Chester Kamen (guitar); Craig Armstrong (piano); Rob Merril (drums). Personnel: Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Horace Andy, Nicolette, Tracey Thorn (vocals); Chester Kamen (guitar); Craig Armstrong (piano); Robbie Merrill (drums). Audio Mixer: Nellee Hooper. Recording information: Massive Attack And Antenna Studios, Bristol, England; Wild Bunch Studios, London, England. Photographers: Matthew Donaldson; Eddie Monsoon; Jean Baptiste Mondino. Arranger: Craig Armstrong.

Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.106) - Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records". Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.79) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (4/6/95, p.64) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...this English dance-pop outfit...delivers brilliant body music that doesn't neglect the brain. Cool, sexy stuff, it smoothly fuses dub, club and soul, grounding its grace in sampled hip-hop beats..." Spin (2/95, pp.77-78) - Satisfactory - "...the dark depressive flipside to Soul II Soul's sunny, self-determining optimism. The beats are even slower, the grooves more contemplative than propulsive, the arrangements... influenced by METAL BOX-era P.I.L....The songs rarely allow for emotional release..." Alternative Press (7/95, p.106) - Ranked #93 in AP's list of the `Top 99 of '85-'95' - "...PROTECTION return[s] Massive to their reggae roots...Thundering bass echoe[s] beneath percolating hip-hop beats and smooth soul grooves...Unlike that of increasingly cartoonish gangstas, Massive's might [is] no media pose..." Vibe (2/95, p.88) - "...well couched in the sound-system ethic....PROTECTION is a weird piece of work that fits right into the defining mantra of British dance music...A surreal forging of dub, hip hop, soul, and random bugged-out elements..." New York Times (Publisher) (1/6/96, p.C16) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums of `95 - "...full of loops, echoes, ghostly voices and the conviction that space is as important as sound..." NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #13 in NME's list of `The Top 50 Albums Of 1994.' NME (Magazine) (9/24/94, p.49) - 8 - Excellent - "...Rolling pianos, soft handclaps and a quiet little bass noodle: odd and very grown-up, but cinematically sexy..."

The Bristol collective known as Massive Attack arose out of the acid house scene of late-1980s England to become one of the 1990s' greatest innovators. The group has changed the face of music every time out. They invented "trip-hop" on their debut, BLUE LINES, and then moved dance music toward a fusion where genres like dub, soul, ambient, and electronica merge so completely that categories cease to matter.

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