Best artist Trip-Hop of all time

1° Massive Attack

❝ Ritual Spirit is not an album, but rather an EP of four tracks, seventeen minutes long.

❝ In a single word Trip hop, a genre that brings together hip hop with the idea of a mental journey, waves that mesh with an indefatigable groove, environments that recognize and meld into an unexplored universe, an assemblage of diverse genres, all shaped into a sound flow that is ever gentle and aggressive, overwhelming, fascinating and sharp, violent in its voluptuous delicacy.

❝ The line between sweetness and unease is always thin: what attracts us the most often coincides with what scares us the most.

33 Reviews 46 Charts 15 Definitions

2° Portishead

❝ Claustrophobia.

❝ Portishead's "Third" disconcerts, and immerses the beloved and iconographic sound of the Bristol trio in dark/industrial waters.

❝ It's like being in Chicago in the '30s, with too much LSD in your system.

14 Reviews 63 Charts 13 Definitions

3° Tricky

❝ Go and get it immediately, even though I envy those who have never listened to it because discovering it has a different taste than having it in the player for many years, although sometimes I still find something new and it continues to move me. Anesthetizing.

❝ I'm not afraid of the dark, yet every time I listen to this album, I get fierce shivers that leave me no escape nor breath.

❝ Have you ever found yourself locked inside the cold chamber of a morgue with a toe tag between your toes?

14 Reviews 11 Charts 06 Definitions

4° Lamb

❝ what on earth is this??!

❝ Pure magic and imaginative catharsis for damned souls.

❝ a folk-singer lent to electronics

06 Reviews 05 Charts 02 Definitions

5° Everything but the Girl

❝ Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn are Everything But The Girl.

❝ This album represents to date the swan song of one of the most influential international pop groups: Ben Watt plus Lady Voice Tracey Thorn.

❝ For all those who loved the elegant atmospheres of the so-called English sophisti-pop, Everything But The Girl was an essential name, and this The Language of Life from 1990 sits at the pinnacle of their “new cool” period (there would later be a “dance” turn, but that’s another story).

16 Reviews 17 Charts 03 Definitions

6° Nearly God

❝ Tricky's second album (although here he calls himself Nearly God!!!), features collaborations on almost all the songs with esteemed voices (Bjork, Neneh Cherry, Martina Topley Bird, Cath Coffey, Alison Moyet), creating a sparse and raw album that touches on numerous genres (hip hop, funk, jazz, ambient) without ever fully taking their form.