Binding: Audio Cassette EAN: 0731453918948 Label: Polygram Records Manufacturer: Polygram Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polygram Records Release Date: September 30, 1997 Studio: Polygram Records Sales Rank: 723088
Amazon.com: The bad news is that there is no "Sour Times" to equal the first album's greatness. Lead single "Cowboys" doesn't do the trick, not with its '50s sci-fi dub vibe and the Yma Sumac stylings of Beth Gibbons. The upside is that this bold sophomore release is, even at this late date in trip-hop's evolution, still startling, thanks to the mix of Geoff Barrow's soundscapes and Gibbons's haunting wail. --Jeff Bateman
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Rating: - The second masterpiece
With Dummy, Portishead cemented their niche in the world of trip hop, and honestly had no obligations to carry out afterwards. Dummy was a fantastic album, good enough that even if the group had stopped ... Read More
Rating: - jinx
In the three years following Portishead's first album about 1 billion trillion bands ripped off the portishead sound... Or tried to.
Postishead reponded with this lame effort. I barely remember ... Read More
Rating: - Severe version of Portishead obiterated sophomore jinx and created otherworldly masterpiece
I can't think of an instance since Elvis Costello's brilliant This Year's Model that an artist or group so thoroughly obliterated the sophomore jinx in the face of high expectations as Portishead did on this one. ... Read More
Rating: - My favourite Portishead
Portishead has yet to put out a bad CD and in my opinion this is their best.
Rating: - Portishead is mesmerizing trip hop.
Following their success with Dummy (1994), Bristol band Portishead released their second electronic Trip Hop self-titled album in 1997. With a mesmerizing sound similar to two other Bristol bands, Tricky and Massive ... Read More
- The second masterpiece
- jinx