Labels:text | screenshot | font | graphic design | graphics | poster OCR: pop band. Influences: Aretha Franklin and Tracy Chapman." For "Protection," they decided to hire a singer named Nicolette, and also enlisted the talents of Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl). Horace Andy, and Tricky. Nellee Hooper even returned to produce the album, but when it fell behind schedule, he had to leave to work on Madonna's "Bedtime Stories." "Protection" is a brilliant album that continues the band's evolution of the blues. Massive's tour of the US in support of "Protection" was a return to the heydays of the wild Bunch. It was a traveling sound system, complete with large video screens on which 3-D animations were displayed. digital culture stream EXIT