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September 17, 2003

Gibbons, Webb Go In "Season"

Portishead singer, Talk Talk bassist bring buzzy album to U.S.
January 4, 2001

Portishead Ready to Begin New Album

Trip-hop outfit Portishead head to Australia to record third album
December 11, 1997

Trip-Hoppin' Beats

Portishead's Geoff Barrow on writer's block and musical shlock

Recordings and Reviews

Third

It's been ten years since the world last heard from Portishead, the U.K. trip-hop trio, and they do not sound like they've spent the past decade going to therapy, listening to new music or making friends. Actually, they sound like they spent it locked in a tea cupboard underwater off the coast of...

2008 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Vocalist Beth Gibbons and keyboardist Geoff Barrow first met in a job-retraining program offered by the unemployment office in Bristol, England. Gibbons, who came from Devon, was a veteran of numerous local bands, and Barrow, who hailed from nearby Portishead, had already accumulated studio experience as a teenager, working on vocalist Neneh Cherry's Homebrew, producing a track for fellow Bristol ...

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