Portishead, one of the better bands to come out of the mid-’90s trip-hop movement, seems to have transformed background music into a legitimate art form. If all elevator music sounded like Portishead, ...

There are certain groups of musicians that never get enough attention or exposure; groups that never have the opportunity to get to the true listeners because of popularity or genre affiliation. These ...

So far this year, some of our favorites oldies -- see the Breeders, Portishead, and, of course, the B-52's -- have released new albums that more or less picked-up where they left off, updating the ...

trajectory similar to that of the band’s career. First, a curious spoken part breaks the silence, which is then washed over by a tapping snare and rhythmic bass part. When the frenetic drumming and ...

Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow formed the seminal trip-hop band Portishead in 1991, merging torch-song tenderness with James Bond-theme grandeur and hip-hop production. After two wildly influential CDs ...

Want the scare of your life? Subject yourself to the new Portishead album. It’s a holy terror of a thing, scarred by horror-movie vocals, creepy-crawly soundscapes ...

Before this album, Portishead's 18-year career had managed to yield just two studio albums and a total of 22 songs. Only Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, a man who's spent the last 15 years perfecting ...

In the music industry’s accelerated calculus, 10 years can contain a lifetime’s worth of activity. Since Bristol, U.K., trip-hop trio Portishead released its eponymously titled studio album in 1997, ...

When Geoff Barrow sparked a minor spat with Mark Ronson last summer, marvelling at the man’s ability to “turn decent songs into shit funky supermarket muzak”, it wasn’t hard to detect a certain ...

Before I start, a couple of caveats. First, I must admit that I haven’t played either of the first two Portishead albums for a shamefully long time, so I’m going to be struggling a little to put ...