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      • Portishead received critical acclaim upon its release. In a rave review for Q, Andrew Harrison said that the album showed Portishead sounding "less and less like a conflation of influences, and more and more like themselves", finding the music "almost cinematic" and the lyrics "more rounded" in perspective than on Dummy.
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  2. Aug 22, 2022 · Portishead do not have a bad album to their name. In fact, Roseland NYC Live is one of the greatest and most underrated live albums of all time. Recorded during a performance at the Roseland Ballroom in Manhattan, the album features tracks from the band’s debut album Dummy and their self-titled sophomore release.

  3. PORTISHEAD: This album is probably, of the three, the most technically impressive. The sampling on this album specifically of the three of them speaks to Geoff Barrow's talent. The samples on All Mine just feel so damn good to hear come together.

    • Dummy (1994) “Chilling, and not in a good way. Imagine if J.G. Ballard and Dusty Springfield had tried to make a dance record together. This would be that record.
    • Third (2008) “I remember initially disliking Third because I compared this to its contemporaries and even their past records. However, I found myself coming back to this record since something always kept me captivated until the end.
    • Portishead (1997) “This must be one of my all-time favorites. The dark current that lurked just beneath the surface of Dummy is put on full display here.
    • Roseland NYC Live (1998) “The best Portishead album, the pinnacle of trip-hop as a genre, and if not the greatest live album of all time at the very least the finest capturing of what makes a band great at their peak (by a ‘studio’ band, not a live specialist like Phish).
  4. Aug 12, 2024 · Is Portishead still good after a decade long break? The answer to all of these questions is of course YES. Stylistically it is very different from their first two albums, hell there's even a ukelele on one of the tracks here which previously would have been unthinkable.

  5. Aug 21, 2019 · By Christopher R. Weingarten. Published Aug. 21, 2019 Updated Aug. 24, 2019. In the summer of 1994, when American alternative rock kids were kicking up mud to Nine Inch Nails and Green Day,...

  6. Third is far and away the best, most punk thing in the Portishead catalog: a deeply transgressive album that bears a passing similarity to its predecessors but leaves most of the baggage behind in favor of a full-blown reset.

  7. Aug 22, 2024 · Portishead’s debut album, ‘Dummy,’ merged hip-hop with soundtrack atmospherics to create one of the defining albums of the 90s.