Portishead
Portishead
Artist Information
Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Trip-Hop, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Electronica
Active: 90's, 2000's
Formed: 1991 in Bristol, England
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Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. Taking their cue from the slow, elastic beats that dominated Massive Attack's Blue Lines and adding elements of cool jazz, acid house, and soundtrack music, Portishead created an atmospheric, alluringly dark sound. The group wasn't as avant-garde as Tricky, nor as tied to dance traditions as Massive Attack; instead, it wrote evocative pseudo-cabaret pop songs that subverted their conventional structures with experimental productions and rhythms of trip-hop.
Discography
Release: April 25, 2008
Label: Island, Mercury/Island
Release: 2008
Label: Universal Polska