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Portishead might not have invented trip-hop, however they were one of the primary to popularize it, particularly in the us. Acquiring their cue in the slow, flexible beats that dominated Substantial Attack’s Blue Lines and adding components of great jazz, acid home, and soundtrack music, Portishead made an atmospheric, alluringly …

Beth Gibbons, lead singer from the essential Uk alternative band Portishead, isn’t so much inexplicable as intensely personal. Blessed in 1965 into an Exeter plantation family members, she embraced rural lifestyle fully, forgoing university to continue carrying out farm function and hearing music on the home stereo system with her …