It's been a long time since Portishead released any music. It's also taken an equally bloody long time for me to finally recognise that they actually are just as good as fellow Bristol musical masterminds Massive Attack. Machine Gun, the lead single off their third album (Third - what originality!), is quite a disturbing piece of music. The drum sounds are vicious yet minimalistic and it all builds into a synth-led crescendo that is subtle yet affecting. Not only that, but Beth Gibbons has, it could be argued, one of the most powerful and beautiful voices in music right now.DIGG IT!
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