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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Blue Lines is the 1991 debut album by English trip hop group Massive Attack, released on their Wild Bunch tag through Virgin Records. A highly-influential album, Blue Lines featured breakbeats, sampling, and rapping on a number of tracks, but the design of the album differed from traditional hip hop. Massive Attack approached the American-born hip hop movement from an underground British perspective and also incorporated live instruments into the mixes. It features the vocals of Shara Nelson and Horace Andy, along with the rapping of Tricky Kid. Blue Lines proved to be popular in the club scene, as well as on college radio stations. In a contemporary review of Blue Lines, Dele Fadele of NME hailed the album as Inchthe sleekest, deadliest, most urbane, most confounding LP 1991 has yet seenInch, writing that Massive Attack Inchput current changes on the dancefloor in perspective and map out blueprints for what must surely come nextInch and that Inchafter Blue Lines the boundaries separating soul, funk, reggae, house, classical, hip-hop and space-rock will be blurred forever.Inch Album Tracks 1. Safe from Harm 5 16 2. One Love 4 48 3. Blue Lines 4 21 4. Be Thankful for What You've Got 4 09 5. Five Man Army 6 04 1. Unfinished Sympathy 5 08 2. Daydreaming 4 14 3. Lately 4 26 4. Hymn of the Big Wheel 6 36
