Album Rating: 4.5

It's up there, agreed. They're not too far apart.

Album Rating: 3.5

Blue Lines has more warmth and this fresh energy to it…Protection I find a bit more of a cold fish



First three songs are Blue Lines level and a couple more are great, rest is a little frigid.

Album Rating: 4.5

T/t = 💖

Album Rating: 3.0

T/T = 👑

Album Rating: 4.5

Y/Y.

Album Rating: 4.0

tracey thorn projects from 94-99 were really on one huh

Album Rating: 3.0

John.

Opinion on the t/t?

Album Rating: 4.0

10/10 song absolutely classic, somehow quintessential massive attack yet entirely distinct from both the albums either side, love it

Album Rating: 3.0

That’ll do



❤️

Album Rating: 4.5

It does. And it's true.

This girl i knowww
Needs some shelterrr

Album Rating: 3.0

The nineties were that astronomically amazing that an album that has Protection on it garners a 3 in my world.

Protection still sounds EXACTLY the same as it did nearly 30 years ago. Like it has always existed.

Album Rating: 4.0

man they really should have worked with Nicolette a lot more, Three and Sly are too damn good

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah agreed, Nicolette is so super good and they're such a great fit together.

Album Rating: 4.0

For many years I preferred Blue Lines to this, but somehow it has changed recently. Both Nicolette and Tracy Thorn are wonderful here.

Album Rating: 3.0

Of all the albums I have ever listened to this has probably aged the best.



When it was released it was very drab in comparison to how genre shifting Blue Lines was.



Mezzanine was another cataclysmic positive musical schism and further buried this record which was already lost between Portishead, Tricky, ‘trip-hop’ and everything else that was going on at the time.



The fact remains that the the t/t is possibly the greatest song of all time.

Everything else that follows bar the closer is mesmerising as fuck.

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

You're a boy and I'm a girl

Album Rating: 4.5

Also Sly.

Oh my!

another case of 'need to get around to this one'