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PortisheadHad a few moments of enjoyment, but was overall an unpleasant listen. Music can be a lot of things, but melody and harmony are the bare minimum and this doesn’t have much of them.
Had a few moments of enjoyment, but was overall an unpleasant listen. Music can be a lot of things, but melody and harmony are the bare minimum and this doesn’t have much of them.
Landmark, instant classic. Real songs performed by real people, warts and all. Great writing instrumentally, Meg plays to the song and Jack is Jack. Has everything it needs and nothing more. Perfect!
This genre is not really my thing, but I enjoyed listening nonetheless. The gentler tracks like Thousands are Sailing stuck out to me as particularly moving. The more polka sounding songs were kind of a miss. I feel like there are probably some insightful lyrics, though they aren’t easily understood. Fun, but probably won’t be revisiting this.
Fun listen. This has been referenced and sampled so much since it came out it almost feels trite, but I’m sure was impactful at the time. The cover cuts were a pleasant surprise.
Probably not fair to judge this from a modern lens, but this hasn’t aged well. Most of this is cartoony and tropey without anything all that creative. I’d rather listen to early Beatles.