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Unfinished Sympathy
Massive Attack
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Mention 鈥淯nfinished Sympathy鈥 to anyone who has ever visited a nightclub and the chances are their eyes will immediately mist over. More than a decade after its release it remains one of the most moving pieces of dance music ever, able to soften hearts and excite minds just as keenly as a ballad by Bacharach or a melody by听
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Composer Robert del Naja/Grantley Marshall/Shara Nelson/J. Sharp/Andrew Vowles
Genre Soul
Album Blue Lines
Year of Release 1991
UK Chart Position 听 13
McCartney. Rising from the ashes of Bristol collective The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack invented what we now know as trip-hop (although they hate the term) and launched the careers of Tricky and Shara Nelson. 鈥淯nfinished Sympathy鈥 starts with a simple, footstep-like beat reminiscent of the Pet Shop Boys鈥 鈥淲est End Girls鈥 but then bursts into life with a Spector-esque wall of strings and percussion. Shara Nelson鈥檚 wonderful rich vocals rise above the simple ascending/descending chord structure and make it clear that while this may be electronic music, it has just as much soul as anything to have ever come out of Detroit.

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