Blue Lines by Massive Attack — album cover
№ 77 of 100

Blue Lines

Massive Attack · 1991 · Electronic

Blue Lines by Massive Attack (1991), № 77 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Massive Attack, Tricky, Shara Nelson, and Horace Andy in a Bristol studio inventing a genre they refused to name. The founding document of trip-hop.

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