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Tricky
Angels With Dirty Faces (Island)
Massive Attack
Mezzanine (Virgin)
Massive Attack is the English outfit widely credited with pioneering trip-hop, which blends hard, urban break beats with neo-psychedelic textures. But the trio’s third release, “Mezzanine,” is so smooth it would barely raise ripple at a wine-and-cheese party. Onetime Massive Attack protege Tricky continues to push his spiky aural hallucinations on “Angels With Dirty Faces.” With vocals that whisper and insinuate, bass lines that creep like spiders and cinematic washes of sound, Tricky writes with the serious headphone listener in mind. You’ll search in vein for hooky songs, but those who stay the course may find “Angels” addicting.
