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...That wasn't always the case; her first release, La Biographie de Luka Phillipsen was a catchy record filled out with electronic beats and sounds that make it good French company to Portishead. She followed it with La Disparition, stripping the sound down to simple acoustic songs. It was her third, Not Going Anywhere, her first in English, that got the interest of the hipster crowd on American shores, which continued with 2004's Nolita, named after her Manhattan neighborhood and imbued with her time spent there. In addition to her own albums, she has written for others, including octogenarian...
Dummy. Get past the odd name. Hip but timeless, mournful but seductive, danceable but restful, this trip-hop album from Portishead sets the mood...
...more of a true visionary, foreseeing an apocalypse brought down by four horsemen who all look suspiciously like Aphex Twin, a.k.a. Richard D. James. He imagines societies overridden by ultraviolence and emotions propelled by automation, then complements his vision with tonally appropriate pieces from artists such as Autechre and Portishead. The marriage is always perversely poetic, culminating in a video for Björk’s “All Is Full of Love” replete with erotically charged robots...
...much to bridge the waters. The problem is simple: no one in Britain will take you too seriously if you give a prize to Justin Timberlake or Kid Rock. MTV retaliates by not concerning itself with the club or dance-based music by the likes of Portishead or Roni Size, something that has seriously impoverished recent...
Moving away from their early baggy-beat and shoegazer styles, Blur have more recently taken on electronic traces in their music that parallel the advent of trip-hop acts such as Massive Attack and Portishead...