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Trip hop is a music genre that began in the mid-1990s of down tempo electronic music and grew out of England’s hip hop and house scenes and Bristol underground scene.
Massive Attack's first album Blue Lines in 1991, is said to be the first manifestation of the ‘Bristol hip hop movement.’ This was followed by Protection (1994), Mezzanine (1998) and 100th window (2003). After a gap of seven years the duo Robert Del Naja and Grant Marshall have come out with Heligoland (2010), an album of their trademark electronic drone, brooding drum and bass and dark foreboding and eerie grooves with many guest artistes on vocals. Like all their previous albums, this album too is largely experimental, in that the way the track begins, progresses or ends is unpredictable.
Pray For Rain is a dark track with rippling drum rolls and thrumming synths which begins slowly and swells into a menacing sound. Babel is hypnotic, while Splitting The Atom contrary to what the title might suggest is a mute and subdued track. Girl I Love You has a vibrating energy driven by a low bassline. On Saturday Come Slow vocalist Damon Albarn sounds melancholic but rich. Rave tinged, Atlas Air has simple synth riff and beat.
Heligoland
Massive Attack
EMI/Virgin, Rs 395