I was going to write about The Kills' latest album, Midnight Boom, until I read that Portishead, a band which, along with the likes of Tricky and Massive Attack popularized a sub-genre of electronic music known as trip-hop, had released the video for "Machine Gun," their new single (released in advance of their forthcoming record, Third--their first full-length recording in ten years). The song, propelled by Geoff Barrow's flurry of sixteenth notes played on and distorted through a drum machine (lending the track something of an industrial feel), is slightly different than what one might expect to hear from this group, even though Beth Gibbon's strangely inviting voice is still quite present.
Third is out on April 29 via Mercury.
[dr]
Third is out on April 29 via Mercury.
[dr]
3 comments:
16 notes!? you counted them!?
but thanks. i was eager to hear the new portishead stuff.
Eighteenth notes, sixteenth notes, whatever, it all sounds like: rat-tat-tat!
Hi, Andy!
hi danny!
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