Melancholy. In order not to strain the most commonly used word unnecessarily: MEILENSTEN music history. One might in any drawer Portishead want to throw TripHop / Alternative Pop / Electronic / BlaBla. One may see settled in the same genre countless musical groups. If the necessarily be so, I quote here "Tricky - Maxinquaye" at: an excellent disc. Portishead is the attention to detail. Geoff Barrows work in the background and Beth Gibbons' voice give each piece a unique atmosphere, but always supported by a thread: Melancholy, decisive desperater by combining text and Beth's incredibly diverse voice. Who does not know TripHop should probably stay away from the album. Who ever Massive Attack, Tricky, Hooverphonic not got out of the CD player: Listen to it and buys it. Frightens you not before the singing violins in 'Mysterons', not the 'Nobody Loves You' by 'Sour Times' (it is supplemented by 'not like you do' but you overheard this only too happy), just forget any music before that. Portishead's like whiskey: one understands them or you hate them.
