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Massive Attack's first album Blue Lines was released in 1991 to huge success in the UK.

Blue Lines was seen widely as the first major manifestation of a uniquely British hip hop movement, but the album's hit single " Unfinished Sympathy " and several other tracks, while their rhythms were largely sample-based, were not seen as hip hop songs in any conventional sense.

Shara Nelson, an R & B singer, featured on the orchestral " Unfinished ," and Jamaican dance hall star Horace Andy provided vocals on several other tracks, as he would throughout Massive Attack's career.

Massive Attack released their second album entitled Protection in 1994.

Although Tricky stayed on in a lesser role, and Hooper again produced, the fertile dance music scene of the early ' 90s had informed the record, and it was seen as an even more significant shift away from the Wild Bunch era.