Third time unlucky? 7/10 Almost every review of Portishead’s ‘Third‘ opens with a summary account of trip hop, with mentions of coffee tables and dinner parties. Musical snobbery conspires to dictate who listens to music and how it is listened to. The fact that ‘Dummy‘ became universally successful or featured in the soundtrack for This [...]
Portishead – Third
May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Best of 2008, Electronica, Folk/Acoustic, Music, Pop/Rock, Prog, Psychedelia, Trip hop
Tags:Adrian Utley·analogue·austere·Best of 2008·Beth Gibbons·bleak·Bristol·Folk·Geoff Barrow·Germanic·indsutrial·metallic·Prog rock·Retro·Teutonic·Torch songs·Trip hop·vintage keyboard
Merz – Moi Et Mon Camion
April 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Alt-country, Alt-rock, Alternative, Electronica, Folk/Acoustic, Indie, Pop/Rock
Me and my new Merz albun 7/10 Merz’s singular vocals – pitched somewhere between Bob Dylan and Horace Andy (to my ears anyway) – first surfaced in 1999 with his eponymous debut album and a couple of memorable singles that got a lot of airplay on Radio One and the likes. A mix of (sometimes [...]
Tags:Baroque·Bob Dylan·Bristol·Electronica·Folk·Nick Drake·pastoral·Tim Buckley·troubador·whimsy