Massive Attack have helped define the ‘Bristol Sound’ since 1988. Emerging from the city’s underground club scene, blending elements of sound system culture with hip-hop, electronic music, jazz, funk, dub and reggae, the band has gone on to sell tens of millions of studio albums worldwide, alongside countless compilations, remixes, soundtracks, and EPs – but what are the best Massive Attack tracks to test your hi-fi system?
An evolution of The Wild Bunch, a collective of musicians, DJs and MCs active on the Bristol scene since 1982, Massive Attack’s founding line-up comprised Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja (maybe Banksy, probably not), Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall (graffiti prowess unknown), Andrew ‘Tricky’ Thaws (yes, from The Fifth Element), and Andrew ‘Mushroom’ Vowels (DJ cameo in Neneh Cherry’s Buffalo Stance video).
