Tag Archives: Portishead

Replica sun machines

In the spirit of the fifty word fictions currently being posted by Chan over at A wild slim alien, here are some reviews of exactly that length – tips of the hat to my long-player listening so far this year.  With the odd hand gesture or wrinkled nose thrown in. The Shortwave Set – Replica [...]

Machine gun

How do you announce your return after a ten year break from releasing records?  Why naturally, you spray your every willing listener with a hail of metaphorical bullets.  Predictably spiky and unpredictably basic, as minimal as early Detroit techno and as compelling as ‘Blue Monday’ – Portishead’s ‘Machine gun’ does much more than its nominal [...]

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