Living in the Flood

Living in the Flood came out on Massive Attack's Melankolic label, but it was made in Jamaica with session musicians at Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston. Pitchfork's reviewer noted that Massive Attack had not discovered Andy, who was already a veteran of three decades of records when they used him on Blue Lines.

The review praised the opener After All and Don't Blame the Children, in which Andy remembers childhood in Kingston, and the Rastafari songs My Lord and Seven Seals. It was less taken with the love songs and with the title track, written by Joe Strummer, and Doldrums, which Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja wrote for him. Its verdict was several instant classics, some weak moments, and a sound too clean for the material.