Mezzanine

So we were about to begin listening to Massive Attack's Mezzanine in class when an announcement called for a "stay in place drill" and in result led to turning off the lights which reminded Mr. A that 2nd period listened to it with the lights out, so we decided to do so as well with the visualizer on, and the combination was sick. Mezzanine, as Mr.A said is definitely a night album so just with the lights out the mood was enhanced and better fit with the music which had something about it that gave off a slightly darker chilled out vibe which is a good and refreshing change from the constant barrage of uptempo music. The visualizer also enhanced the mood of the album, supporting the chilled out, downtempo side of it, sometimes with bright colorful firework explosions and other times with darker, less active smoke balls. One thing I noticed was that as the album progressed, the visualizations looked more and more organic (at least to me, I had Schwarz for biology, so everything's kind of been tattooed into my head)  and got more and more complex from the double helix to flagellum and cilia, so that was pretty interesting to watch the different structures that formed (again that's what it looked like to me). At one point I think a vice principle or some else came in, and based off the ambiance that featured the lights out, rather trippy visualizer and the album playing, they definitely thought something along the lines of " holy crap what did I just walk into","god damn it Mr.A the kids are high","everyone in that room is tripping" and crap along those lines. It think one of the reasons the majority of the songs in the album tended to have a darker sound attributed to them was the lack of  a definite instrumental melody to lead which results in more focus on percussive elements and I think at least some of the songs were in a minor key which would definitely contribute to the sound. I enjoyed Mezzanine throughout and has gotten me to check more of Massive Attack's music.