Word: portishead
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...Frampton was experimenting with electronic voice manipulation when my parents were still in college, the synthesized matrix in the album's title track resembles devices Bjork has been employing since Post, "Optimistic" could easily be mistaken for an R.E.M. tune and "Morning Bell" sounds like a track cut from Portishead's Dummy...
...anymore," he says, "because these extended length tapes of bubble-gum pop just play over and over and over." Griffin stays at Kinko's because he has learned how to beat their Muzak system by bringing in a car CD adapter for late-night Sublime and Portishead...
...everything and lets us choose. But we can't play anything too extreme---except late-night." If it was up to his tie-dyed coworker, Tessabelle Walker, "The only thing that would be playing is bootleg Phish and the Dead." Other Toscanini's staples include Portishead and Radiohead---and the microsundae...
...Europe, deejay culture is more widely accepted. Bands like Roni Size's Breakbeat Era--whose new album, Ultra-Obscene (XL/ 1500/A&M), is a winner--and Portishead--whose 1994 album, Dummy, is a classic--build their sound around the turntable. But in the U.S., turntable rock is just starting to have a real impact...
...fact, the album calls to mind a litany of role models, with Trickyesque trip-hop rhythms and a funky bass that resembles Jamiroquai. The filtered vocals and heavy bass undercurrents of "Ironspy" could come right out of Portishead. While Splashdown's sound is not fully coherent, Melissa Kaplan displays a wide range on vocals that is at times beautiful, and if the group can manage to unify their sound, they may produce a stronger album. For the moment, this exploratory album gets...