Mezzanine 2CD

Mezzanine was Massive Attack's third album, out on Virgin in 1998, and it's the one where the trio ditched the slow trip-hop haze for something darker and more guitar-driven, built around Teardrop and Angel. The trick of this deluxe twentieth-anniversary edition is pairing a remastered version of that original album with new dub reworkings of several tracks, courtesy of producer Mad Professor. He'd already done this once before, giving the band's earlier album Protection the same dub treatment, so this is less a gimmick than a sequel to a job he's done before.