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Portishead used some of the same building blocks as fellow Bristol, England, trip-hoppers Massive Attack -- woozy break beats, jazzy samples, live guitar, girl singer/guy programmer dynamic -- but Beth Gibbon's brooding, pop-cabaret vocals showed to the world that you could feel real pain over a trip-hop groove.

Total album sales: 950,000

Peak chart position: 79

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