Portishead

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

Another great album from Portishead

Very soothing triphop

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!

Now all the Portishead albums are included. Deserved? Yes

Another great Portishead album. I still think Dummy is their magnum opus, but the other two records and fantastic to be fair. This one doesnt have the catchiness of some of the tracks from Dummy but is also generally not quite as eerie and ruminative as Third about a decade later.Instead Gibbons’ vocals are a lot more present in the mix and more theatrical, a la Kate Bush, before the distant grooves really kick in. It’s a great stepping stone between the single-heavy debut Dummy and the more mature and obscure Third - the darkness is there for sure but it’s peeping through rather than decaying everything

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.

Pretty good, not as good as their first album though. I do like that there was less sampling. 3 stars.

Trip hop, acid jazz. Ni fu ni fa.

Beautiful

Portishead was one of my controversial artists; on the main list I gave them a 2 and a 5. Which brings us to the main point -- there's already two of these on the main list. Minus a star for pretty much failing to understand the assignment. As far as the album itself, didn't love it. Very well executed and super atomspheric, I think they probably accomplished exactly what they were going for. But it isn't a world I personally want to visit or spend time in.

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