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...flaunts an orca-esque squeal and is driven by a warm, droning synthesized bass line that, when isolated at the beginning of the verse, creates a beautifully hazy atmosphere. “When I’m Small” follows, sounding like a less dramatic or soul-infused Portishead cut. Though somewhat rhythmically monotonous, the song is carried by the strong, pulsing bass line and Barthel’s excellent vocal performance...
...April, seduces the listener with labyrinthine tracks, sounding like pared-down, refined versions of the trip-hop trio’s old songs. (Metallica also scaled down their sound for “Death Magnetic.”) Guns N’ Roses has taken the opposite tack as Portishead and Metallica, slapping a sanctimonious album cover on 14 floppy messes and billing the resulting album as a progressive heir to their former greatness. But greatness is no more present on this album than democracy is in China—both are myths. Maybe “Chinese Democracy?...
...asked by Hogan to select all the bands, musicians, and films they want to see at the festival. “It’s sort of like making a mixtape,” Hogan says. Past festival curators have included rock bands Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse, and Portishead, as well as filmmaker Vincent Gallo and Simpson’s creator Matt Groening. My Bloody Valentine’s selections include performances by indie mainstays Dinosaur Jr and Yo La Tengo, as well as psych-rockers Mercury Rev and Brian Jonestown Massacre.Hogan and ATP scheduled the festival?...
...great thing about being a musician in an age of digital communications, though, is that local obscurity is no barrier to international recognition. Indonesians don't give them a second look, but a buzz about the band - whose sultry, slow-burning trip-hop invites comparisons with Goldfrapp or Portishead - has gently percolated around the region, thanks to a well-tended MySpace presence, Channel V airplay and the fact that Yohanna mostly sings in English...
...alive, wheezing over the surge of it all. This is “Machine Gun,” the first single from Portishead’s new album, “Third.”More than 10 years after their eponymous second album, the prospect of a third Portishead studio release seemed something less than viable. After all, trip-hop was a movement firmly entrenched in the 90s, petering out with Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” in 1998. Without a cultural groundswell like that of the original Bristol scene to inspire...