Biography

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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• All Mine

• Cowboys

• Glory Box

• Humming

• Lot More

• Machine Gun

• Numb

• Only You

• Silence

• Sour Times

• The Rip

• Theme From To Kill A Dead Man

• Wandering Star

• We Carry On

Discography

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• Third

  Island

  2008

• PNYC

  London / Go! Discs/Beat/London

  1998

• Portishead

  London / Go! Discs/London

  1997

• Dummy

  Go! Discs / Go! Discs/London

  1994