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Massive Attack
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Ask any critic or song-quoting record collector: Massive Attack’s Blue Lines platter changed everything about electronic music in the early ’90s, hammering home the hazy trip-hop template of eerie soul singers, speaker-rattling dub, bloodletting R&B, and enough hip-hop influences to remind us of the group’s sound-system beginnings in the Wild Bunch. Several decades and universally acclaimed albums later, Massive Attack are still as widescreen as sample-driven music gets, whether that means celebrating the classic vapor-trail vocals of Horace Andy (“Angel,” “Girl I Love You,” “Hymn of the Big Wheel”); sampling the KLF and spotlighting the slow-burn vocals of Tricky (“Karmacoma”); or tossing dust-caked drums (“Black Milk”) and haunted harpsichords (“Teardrop”) at a Cocteau Twin. Come to think of it, this entire mood-manipulating set should come with a free tub of popcorn — it's that big-screen-ready.