Showing posts with label Portishead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portishead. Show all posts

Friday, April 25, 2014

Black Sabbeth?



I'm re-posting this from my favorite music blog, the brilliant Heaven is an Incubator. I had no knowledge previous to this of the band Gonga, but Beth Gibbons + Black Sabbath is just too good to be true.

I was a fan of Ms. Gibbon's band Portishead from back around the time of Dummy, but it wasn't until the release of Portishead's record Third in... ah, 2007 that one of their records became necessary to me. The pagan-like soundscapes of some of the darker corners of Third fell into that category of music that the first time I hear it some part of me feels as though it were made specifically for me. So it's really no surprise that I feel the way I do about this cover because Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath - along with much of their Ozzy-era catalogue - also hits me that way.

Sunday, January 19, 2014

Portishead - We Carry On



An abandoned lot. A half circle of headlights illuminate figures dancing in fog. Something nearby awakens.

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Thought Forms - Only Hollow



Evolution of a post:

3 days ago I pulled out Portishead's album Third. Easily my favorite by the band and an all around masterpiece in my opinion. During the listening experience I vaguely remembered reading about Geoff Barrow having another band.

2 days ago I remembered that I remembered Geoff Barrow having another band and vowed to look it up.

1 day ago I watched the new episode of Breaking Bad and thought about nothing else before or after due to its awesomeness stretching both backwards and forwards in time.

Today: I picked up the pieces after that first episode, contemplated waiting five more days until the next one and remembered Geoff Barrow. When I began tracking it down I was side-tracked on his label Invada's website by this awesome track.

Note to self: I still need to find out about this other band Geoff Barrow is in!!!

Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Boredoms - Acid Police



For years I believed the song title and assumed he was saying "Acid - Police". Now I think it sounds more like "Asshole Portishead".

But I like Portishead, Yamatsuka!