Portishead discuss Third / In Depth // Drowned In Sound
Nightmare Before Christmas weekender in Minehead, not far from their Bristol base. Among them was ‘ Machine Gun’, a stripped-raw pulsation of electronic marching drums topped by typically ethereal vocals from Gibbons. As a sign of things to come, it was striking to hear – primitive but startlingly progressive, a distillation of facets experienced before but focused into a potency unexpected. Portishead had changed, period. The band has had to change, though – such a significant time between albums must indicate stylistic shifts, displeasure with established norms, and so it proves to...
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