New Portishead in a week. Forcast for hell: Chilly

[EdgarDiazRocks]

And it only took 10 years to make! I have heard a couple of tracks and it's REALLY dense. As expected.

 

This is a plan for how not to become a ridiculously famous band:

1. Make a debut album that is amazing and genre-defining and ends up winning the Mercury Music Prize

2. Follow it up with a fairly good and really quite gritty second record that cements your position as one of the country's most interesting electronic bands.

3. Do nothing for the next decade.

 

But that's pretty much exactly what Bristol-based Portishead did. If you can believe it, Dummy was released way back in 1994 and the slightly less famous Portishead album came out in 1997. For those of you counting, it means that the last time the band released a record Tony Blair was still a fresh-faced politician who was going to make Britain cool by inviting Oasis to Number 10 for tea.

Review

 

http://www.mtv.co.uk/files/library/images/artist/portishead/portishead_500.jpg

[Katuluu]

And they beat Chinese Democracy by what, 8 years? They can slough off for the better part of another decade and still beat that record to the shelves.

[Brian the Automator]

I've heard it, and I'm not a big fan yet. Maybe it's one of those things that'll grow on me.

[iluvlamp]

I shall purchase said new album.

[And That]

I've been waiting for this since high school. Does that make me old?

[brettac1]

It's a good album. It leaked about a month back, and then in really good quality last week. It's not typically my type of music, but I'm a fan of most of their stuff. Beth Gibbons is a mindblower.

[patrickgpe]

dummy is a great album, i am looking forward to the new one.

[RU Rah Rah]

There's an article in the current New Yorker about it. (I don't really like the critic, though.)

[iluvlamp]

IMHO. This album is beautiful.

[sgtcluels]

well, never listened to em. But I do like Trip Hop, I'm a big fan of Tricky and Massive Attack.

[And That]

well, never listened to em. But I do like Trip Hop, I'm a big fan of Tricky and Massive Attack.

I don't mean anything disrespectful by this, but you may be the first person in the history of the world to have listened to Tricky and Massive Attack (also putting out an album this year!) but not have listened to Portishead. In the middle-late 90's those three bands were pretty much the ruling troika of trip-hopdom. You'll probably love Portishead's first album "Dummy".

 

[sgtcluels]

Nope never have! I became a triphop an probably around 2002ish, post it's hipness. Well I'll download it and check em out.. make a triphop compilation!

[And That]

IMO, "Dummy" by Portishead, "Maxinquaye" by Tricky and "Protection" (though some would say "Blue Lines" or "Mezzanine") by Massive Attack are the crown jewels of trip-hop. Make sure to pick up Lamb's "Fear of Fours" or their s/t album also.

[sgtcluels]

Rad.. I'll check those out. I own all those other albums besides Portishead action. It's odd, I thought I was the only one to really like Tricky and Massive Attack, not much of a scene here in the states. Still mad Tricky couldn't get into the states due to some "Visa" issue few years back.

[And That]

The trip hop "scene" is kind of done, though the bigger acts, however loosely affiliated to trip hop as they were, still play big to festival crowds. Check out Red Snapper and Smoke City, too.

 

Edit: and Sneaker Pimps.

[sgtcluels]

Working my way through Dummy and Third now. Pretty damn good.. def trip hop and feels a bit kind of like Kidneytheives on a lighter side.

 

Makes me want to sit around an drink beer and "just chill"

[patrickgpe]

i really love dummy. and that ill have to check out those other 3.