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Portishead

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Songwriters: Barrow, Geoffrey Paul; Gibbons, Beth; Utley, Adrian Francis

Return of trip hop royalty
about 1 year ago
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Finally, Portishead has come back.Here is one killer track so you can preview the new full lentgh album, 'Third', from this year 's Coachella headliner...after a couple of listens, they sound as sublime as ever. Welcome back.

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An exotic bird in a steel cage: Portishead's 'Third'
about 1 year ago

Beth Gibbons has an excellent, extraordinary voice.This does __not__ mean "she sounds nice when she sings"; "she has the 'voice of an angel'", or "she'd do a mean aria".It means: she sings, and you listen. She sings, and she communicates. In my view, she has one of the most distinctive, affecting, expressive voices in modern music. (What a horrible phrase - "modern music".) Listening to her sin...

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Portishead - Third (Island / Mercury)
about 1 year ago

It's been almost 11 years since Portishead released their last self-titled album (I'm not counting Roseland NYC Live). The three member group of Adrian Utley, Geoff Barrow and more prominent Beth Gibbons have been often credited with making the trip hop genre more mainstream. Originating out of Bristol, UK, Portishead introduced their hometown sound to the commercial radio waves in 1994 with Du...

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