Dummy
by Roy Luckett
June 24th, 2008
Like fellow Bristol artists Massive Attack, Portishead also falls into the trip-hop category. However, they expanded the scope of this genre by incorporating the blues vocal stylings of Beth Gibbons with building hip-hop beats and a sound akin to a 60s spy thriller soundtrack. The best example of this is “Sour Times,” a masterwork that inevitably found its way into every hip coffee shop and trendy clothing store during the 90s. The similarity to Public Enemy lies in the same type of off-kilter unconventional creativity — with uncanny sounds coming out of nowhere — found in It Takes a Nation of Millions.
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