Portishead (band)
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Portishead are an English electronic band formed in 1991 in Bristol. The band comprises Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley. Dave McDonald, an audio engineer who helped produce their first tw
Portishead performing in March 2013
Gibbons in 2008
Utley in 2008
Barrow in 2011
Trip hop
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Trip hop is a music genre defined as a psychedelic fusion of hip-hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a more experimental variant of breakbeat from the B
Portishead (band)
…film soundtracks and yearning vocals from Gibbons. It was met with critical acclaim and commercial success, becoming a landmark album in the emerging trip-hop genre. However, the band disliked being associated with the term. Their two other studio albums, Portishead (1997) and Third (2008), received similar…
Massive Attack, a British trip hop group that helped bring the genre to mainstream success in the 1990s
Tricky, a major trip hop artist
Björk, an artist who has often incorporated trip hop in her music