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Artist: Massive Attack
Album: Blue Lines
Release Date: 28 Aug 2006

''Blue Lines'' is the debut album by British electronica group Massive Attack, released on April 8, 1991 (see 1991 in music) by Virgin Records. Generally considered the first trip hop album--though the term wasn't coined until several years later--''Blue Lines'' was a success in the United Kingdom, though sales were limited elsewhere. A fusion of electronic music, hip hop music|hip hop, dub music, '70s soul music and reggae, the album established Massive Attack as one of the innovative British bands of the 1990s and the founder of trip hop's Bristol Sound.<ref name="schwartz1999">Schwartz, Mark. "Planet Rock: Hip Hop Supa National." In The Vibe History of Hip-hop, ed. Alan Light, 361-72. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.</ref> Music critic Simon Reynolds stated that the album also marked a change in electronic/dance music, "a shift toward a more interior, meditational sound. The songs on ''Blue Lines'' run at 'spliff' tempos - from a mellow, moonwalking 90 beats per minute ...down to a positively torpid 67 bpm."<ref name="RS">{{cite book|author=Reynolds, Simon|title=Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture| publisher=Little, Brown and Co.|year =1998|isbn=0415923735</ref> The group also drew inspiration from concept albums in various genres by artists such as Pink Floyd, Public Image Ltd., Herbie Hancock and Isaa

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