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Portishead is the second studio album by the English electronic music group Portishead, released on 29 September 1997 by Go! Discs. With Portishead, the band chose to eschew sampling other records, which had been a defining feature of their debut album Dummy. Instead, they created original pieces which they wove into the songs, resulting in a more textured sound. The only song to employ samples was "Only You", which incorporates elements of Ken Thorne's Inspector Clouseau score and The Pharcyde's "She Said". "Western Eyes" is listed as sampling "Hookers & Gin" by the Sean Atkins Experience in the album's liner notes. In reality, this song does not exist; like most of the samples on the album, it was created by the band. The album cover is a still image from the music video of the song "All Mine".
A solid album by Portishead. Not as great as the other two studio albums or the live recording, but still a pleasure.
There was a Portishead album on the original list. There were hundreds of 90s UK electronic albums on the original list. wtf is wrong with you? 1/5.
The three album run of Portishead is a gradual transformation from gloopy fungus music to James Bond villain theme songs. Every time I listen to this album, I find myself enjoying it more and more than "Dummy". It might honestly be their best. Certainly has the most vivid soundscapes of their catalogue.
Rating: 9/10 Best songs: Cowboys, All mine, Undenied, Seven months, Only you
Tales of pain and despair set to a murk of electronica. I much prefer this over the popular sample heavy Dummy. I think Third is even better.
I’m glad someone put this on here because even though this doesn’t beat out dummy, I think it’s better than 3. There are a couple songs on here that’re just fantastic. Humming was probs my fav. Beth gibbons is just too good.
5 stars on a moody, gloomy, and or doomy day!
Some songs I loved, others were hard pass. At least it's interesting 3.6
I was new to Portishead on this project, so I don’t have a lot of context or ability to distinguish this a lot from the other albums. A lot of that dramatic cinematic music and haunting lyrics. Great!
Yeah easily their worst. Still good though
A pleasant walk through English electronica.
This was a lot of the same for me, chill track with some voice here in there saying something about something
This band intersects with my tastes on paper, but I can never quite get into it. Emotionally I find the music very monotonous.
Sits right in between 'Dummy' and 'Third' for me, enjoyed the more prominent trip-hop/DJed elements but some tracks still drag on without enough meat on their bones to justify the track length.
Trip hop, acid jazz. Ni fu ni fa.
Portishead is the most overrated shit 1 It's not even just that I don't like it. I can't see how anyone could like it.
Any other artist/band have their whole discography in this list? Because portishead now does. Not sure if all three needed to be added let alone anything other than Dummy. The self titled album opens in quite a rough way but then smooths out a little bit more as it progresses. The instrumentals are always something portishead has done well with the trippy clandestine sound but the singer is what makes or breaks their albums and this one was not too good. This one finished in third place…out of three. 3.4/10