Portishead's album debut is a brilliant, surprisingly natural synthesis of claustrophobic spy soundtracks, dark breakbeats inspired by frontman Geoff Barrow's love of...
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All of Portishead's singles have done a good job of offering reformed versions of their album tracks (the "Glory Box" single is particularly good with this) -- Sour Times...
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Some folks with dull ears may find Portishead's sophomore release, which comes three years after the English band's striking, much-imitated debut Dummy, to be more of the...
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Portishead's debut album, Dummy, popularized trip-hop, making its slow, narcotic rhythms, hypnotic samples, and film noir production commonplace among sophisticated,...
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Portishead have always leaned heavily on studio production, on banks of samplers and elaborate turntable cut-ups. So when they played at NYC's Roseland ballroom last summer,...
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By the end of the '90s, artists realized that CD and CD-R bootlegs of live performances were in high demand, which meant that they could profit by officially releasing...
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