Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. Taking their cue from the slow, elastic beats that dominated Massive Attack's Blue Lines and adding elements of cool jazz, acid house, and soundtrack music, Portishead created an atmospheric, alluringly dark sound. The group wasn't as avant-garde as Tricky, nor as tied to dance traditions as Massive Attack; instead, it wrote evocative pseudo-cabaret pop songs that subverted their conventional structures with experimental productions and rhythms of trip-hop. As a result, Portishead appealed to a broad audience -- not just electronic dance and alternative rock fans, but thirtysomethings who found techno, trip-hop, and dance as exotic as worldbeat.
Format: CD
Released: 1994, 1997, 2008
Label: Island
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trip-hop
Quality: FLAC
Albums:
Dummy - 1994
Tracks:
1. Mysterons 5:02
2. Sour Times 4:11
3. Strangers 3:55
4. It Could Be Sweet 4:16
5. Wandering Star 4:51
6. Numb 3:54
7. Roads 5:02
8. Pedestal 3:39
9. Biscuit 5:01
10. Glory Box 5:06
Portishead - 1997
Tracks:
1. Cowboys 4:38
2. All Mine 3:59
3. Undenied 4:18
4. Half Day Closing 3:49
5. Over 4:00
6. Humming 6:02
7. Mourning Air 4:11
8. Seven Months 4:15
9. Only You 4:59
10. Elysium 5:54
11. Western Eyes 3:57
Third - 2008
Tracks:
1. Silence 4:59
2. Hunter 3:57
3. Nylon Smile 3:16
4. The Rip 4:30
5. Plastic 3:27
6. We Carry On 6:27
7. Deep Water 1:39
8. Machine Gun 4:43
9. Small 6:45
10. Magic Doors 3:32
11. Threads 5:47