Portishead - S/T

It's always slightly heart warming to see a band that hate the genre that they've been lumped in to as much as I hate it. Portishead are widely considered "trip-hop". As the band themselves would back up, it smacks of music journalists trying to make a category for pretty indefinable music. So it's pretty easy to put "trip-hop" in with "post-rock" and all those other genres that just seem pretentious and pretty useless.

Anyway, pointless moan fest over. This record is the follow up to Portishead's critically acclaimed debut. It showed them to be no one trick pony as many had thought them to be. The live jazz samples are still there and the singing is still the moving, slightly awkward clash with the samples that it ever was. I had no idea which pair of tracks to throw your way so I've given up on trying to pick and just given you the first two tracks. Totally relaxing, completely innovative, get in to it kids.

It's been rumored that a new record is on it's way, the band have come back together from their various side projects to grace us with another slab of "trip-hop" genius. I'm chock full of anticipation for it, you probably should be too.

Cowboys
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