It was originally given to the Manic Street Preachers, who recorded their own baggy-pants-chorus beat version in 1994. “Inertia Creeps” is the band’s “sex song”. The song climaxes in an all-out sonic assault and Horace Andy’s repeated “Love you, love you, love you, love you” as the track begins to strip down and fade out. The track transitions from laid-back drum machine to Bonham-style live drums at the 1:40 mark. Distorted guitar textures begin to appear from there. Mezzanine fades in with Massive Attack’s trademark sub bass textures on the slow burn opener “Angel”. These included founding members Robert “3D” Del Naja, Grantley “Daddy G” Marshall, and Andrew “Mushroom” Vowles. electronic music scene, with a hip, brisk, multicultural sound blending soul, hip-hop, reggae, and psychedelic elements. Massive Attack featured frequent vocal appearances from soon-to-be solo artist Tricky and reggae icon Horace Andy, along with a wealth of additional vocal talent from within and outside of the band.
Major playersīlue Lines (1991) and Protection (1994) established the group as major players in the U.K. Their 1998 chef d’oeuvre, Mezzanine, with its creepy insect-that-never-was cover, and sub-dub melancholy, will forever elevate them above most of their ’90s trip-hop contemporaries with the possible exception of the divine Portishead.
These films, like Massive Attack’s music, are concerned with the darker side of life. More specifically, anytime a filmmaker needs to convey any or all of the following: paranoia thick, brooding intensity druggy malaise or beauty in the darkness, you know Massive Attack has it covered. There has always been something cinematic about Bristol electronic legends Massive Attack. After all, their music has appeared in many excellent (and some not so much) movies throughout their career, including Snatch, The Matrix, Blade 2, Sliver, and The Insider.
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