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Third
Portishead
Mercury
Mercury
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead . Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and...
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Dummy
Portishead
Polygram Records
Polygram Records
The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called "To Kill a Dead Man," and the same approach--gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic--permeates the album....
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Mezzanine
Massive Attack
Virgin Records Us
Virgin Records Us
The third full-length release from Massive Attack is a taste of the future of pop music--a future where precisely engineered events can be seamlessly partnered with the subtle complexities of a human voice. Since their first album, Blue Lines ,...
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Simple Things
Zero 7
Palm Pictures (Audio
Palm Pictures (Audio
Zero 7's ability to conjure beautiful lullabies with all the romance of 1960s French pop (as found on their debut LP, Simple Things ) would have made them the toast of soundtrack composers and chill-out connoisseurs the world over. Unfortunately,...
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Portishead
Portishead
London / UMGD
London / UMGD
The bad news is that there is no "Sour Times" to equal the first album's greatness. Lead single "Cowboys" doesn't do the trick, not with its '50s sci-fi dub vibe and the Yma Sumac stylings of Beth Gibbons. The upside is that this bold sophomore...
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The Mirror Conspiracy
Thievery Corporation
Eighteenth Street
Eighteenth Street
Washington, D.C.'s Thievery Corporation purvey a very mellow, deliberately international mixture of sounds that might be called "lounge music"--not in the kitschy sense, but in the sense of a laid-back local bar (much like the one the duo happens to...
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Versions
Thievery Corporation
Eighteenth Street
Eighteenth Street
Versions gathers 18 Thievery Corporation remixes from across a music spectrum that only the most eclectic could love. The vinyl-popping digital duo embraces '60s psychedelia with the Doors and '60s kitsch with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass....
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Deltron 3030
Deltron 3030
Traffic Entertainment/Hieroglyphics Imperium
Traffic Entertainment/Hieroglyphics Imperium
Hip-hop confabulations don't come much more forward-thinking than this. Working from solid atomic principles, Deltron 3030 takes one producer, one MC, and one DJ and throws them beyond Futurama . Dan the Automator (one of the founders of the...
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