Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: consistently downtempo, dark, and morose. The term "trip-hop" probably originated in Britain, since British group Massive Attack are often credited with inventing the genre. The group's 1991 single. "Unfinished Sympathy," with its soaring strings and soulful vocals, is touted by many British journalists as the best single of the past decade. Massive Attack, Portishead, and Tricky are usually lumped together as the reigning triumvirate stream of trip-hop. digital culture EXIT