Release the tension

This makes high-quality music from yes - you still like to hear even after 10 years or longer again. In this particular case precisely, mezzanine 'which needed a little to it the heart - and above all the belly - Reviewer's opened up. Somehow is the belly music, despite the hypnotic songs that superficially seem a little meditative, but in reality have a great dramatic appeal.

Already the opener, Angel 'with his monotonous but punchy drums and shows the so soulful as, Teardrops' were MA eh rarely. Also on the dub trimmed African beat of, Inertia Creeps' can dance and chill out equally to despite his abysmal appearance. Especially on this track, you realize that it would be easy for remixers here the border between Trip Hop and Techno exceed - MA itself would be but certainly too simplistic. , Exchange 'is then the track of what so commonly as, lounge' is called is probably most similar to but also because buzzing and wafts it every now and then in between worrying.

If, Dissolved Girl 'prove to the crashing rock guitar midsection then also that you are a stranger any reservations - and to get the idea this eigenltichen climax of the song then with Fender Rhodes-like chords still add an extra element of tension also shows the ingenuity of DelNaja and Co.

, Man Next Door 'is a little behind the high voltage level of this disk, but even that does not sound lulling and Black Milk' is a kind of reverberation, Teardrops'. The title track has a groovy but then again so unusual and Massive typical beat (note the tinny sound of the snare drum) and increases over the almost overpowering acting synth lick; the ghostly-looking and echo effect laden voice and the onset of the late Synthstreicher are the other ingredients for this exciting track.

With hip-hop beats then flirt on, Group Gour 'back a little and one might suspect that the idea for Eminem Dido's crystal clear Gesangssampel in, Stan' has cribbed from here; also the dynamic structure of the tracks is quite comparable. The second, Exchange 'is still the hung-over, musical Repair Beer, emotional after this binge that similar, Hymn Of The Big Wheel' at the end of Blue Line, probably everything is back into balance.

Hypnotic - yes, meditative - maybe, but never bland. And much more exciting than anything the former lounge and chill-out scene (and also the French long hamlet, Air ') has ever brought together (have). To be sure - to draw the bow of Blue Lines' to, mezzanine 'was foolhardy, but MA managed the then sovereign and can still look like, Heligoland' 2008 proved. (Colleagues from Portishead succeeded with Third 'as a true bolder but also significantly störrischeres and verstörenderes Beast).

, Mezzanine 'collected the handset immediately, as, Blue Lines', but it is growing over the years as a unentfernbares ulcer - but one in which you no longer want to do without.