I'm still in the middle of gathering all the half year lists of 2008! A list of the best albums of 2008 so far according to all Moggers. If you haven't voted yet, go to this thread: http://mog.com/SA/blog_post/169238 and post your top 10 albums of 2008 so far.
On to my number 9:
Band: Portishead
Album: Third
Best Track: The Rip
Best Line: 'Cause I don't know what I've done to deserve you/And I don't know what I'll do without you
In words: Aerial... Mystical...Build-up
Portishead's first since eleven years is a little gem. Eleven years ago I was, well, eleven, and still too young to for my own musical opinion, let alone have heard their album back then. But Third makes up for that now. The aerial instrumental background is the perfect canvas for the frail vocals of Beth Gibbons. Sometimes they shoot out a bit, like on 'Machine Gun', where the instrumentals are more immediate and haunting. It's no wonder this album is currently one of the front runners in the Mog 2008 half year lists race!
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hmmm it's just know i realized beth gibbons has the same name as beth gibbons from The Gossip. INTERESTING.
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You mean Beth Ditto? Here given name's Gibbons? Well, glad someone changed names then, hehehe.
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Haha, I was just thinking something didn't sound right, but Ditto indeed. Or at least, that's the name she goes by in the band anyhow. ;) Even if the names were the same, easy enough to tell them apart, their voices sound nothing alike. :)