Album Rating: 5.0

Omg goat song right there.

Anneke and Garm

Album Rating: 5.0

the best combo ! Cool as those collabs are, with Anneke had teamed up with Ulver post-TG more than Devin Townsend

Also, unrelated, Anneke and Garm are two of my fave non-English first language lyricists whose lyrics work precisely by virtue of that fact

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh man that would have been awesome.

I'm not a big lyrics guy but I can imagine. I've always loved Anneke's accent on Home for instance.

Album Rating: 5.0

Ah yeah her accent and tone are fab, but I mean more the way they use language. There's something almost childish but also very wise and creative about most of TG's lyrics from her era. Wergeland's are fine too but not quite as imaginative and much more bluesy

Album Rating: 4.5

Would be great if Anneke and Garm made a collaborative album some day, I mean the chemistry is there.

Album Rating: 5.0

Ah yeah, I get that.

It would be amazing, hope you're reading this Anneke and Garm!!!!!!!!

Album Rating: 5.0

Why do I get the impression I should like this more? Sad Demon.

Album Rating: 5.0

Sad Trif too!

☘ 😢 ☘

Album Rating: 5.0

I like her voice, but the production doesn't lend itself to an engrossing dark atmosphere, it's very err... bright/bold? I don't know if that makes sense, it felt as if everything was right there on the surface. Lacking depth perhaps? Plus instrumentally it didn't throw many unexpected flourishes or artistic flair my way, or maybe I just didn't notice? It was a pleasant but uneventful journey.

Maybe it's just because Johnny said this was basically Portishead worship and I feel that comparison is misplaced, to me at least. False expectations lead to disappointment.

I'll have to revisit this a couple more times, with an open mind.

Album Rating: 3.5

It is Portishead worship, but not Portishead emulation. They took the sound they had been messing with on How to Measure a Planet? and if_then_else, and dropped a huge amount of trip hop and electronics into it.

Album Rating: 5.0

The trip hop elements are a little vanilla. I get that they exist here and maybe this represents a departure or 'further leaning' in their sound, but calling it Portishead 'worship' is a stretch. Bear in mind that I haven't heard any of their other albums, so I can't compare it to any previous incarnation(s) of the band.

Album Rating: 3.5

The 'Portishead Worship' is their own description of the album from interviews back in the day. Whether you feel they pulled it off is another story.

Album Rating: 5.0

As a huge Portishead fan and appreciator of trip-hop in general, I'm currently feeling like they haven't. Saying that, it doesn't necessarily mean this can't be enjoyed regardless of whether it satisfies those lofty comparisons, so with that in mind I shall attempt to forget this happened and try again.

Album Rating: 4.5

Dafuq Demon, this rules

Album Rating: 4.5

Would 4.5 if I could

Album Rating: 5.0

I feel there's definitive trip-hop elements here. A Life All Mine is chock full of them, the beat in Jelena and These Good People and Golden Grounds, much of the prominent bass work, the experimental stretches of We Just Stopped Breathing and the t/t, etc.

I do get your point though Demon, the term Portishead worship is perhaps a little too bold, especially when you expect something sonically similar. I think they mainly incorporated elements of the genre here and mixed them with rock and alternative elements.

Album Rating: 5.0

Why can't you Pika?

Album Rating: 3.5

--As a huge Portishead fan and appreciator of trip-hop in general, I'm currently feeling like they haven't. Saying that, it doesn't necessarily mean this can't be enjoyed regardless of whether it satisfies those lofty comparisons, so with that in mind I shall attempt to forget this happened and try again.--

Maybe you were just expecting 'more' trip hop when, for fans, it was a huge musical change and quite an infusion of elctronics and trip-hop.

Album Rating: 4.5

No-prog policy.



I'll have to kill myself if I ever get above 20% prog in my sput genre chat, won't I



Once I rate enough other albums - assuming I ever will bother to do so - I'll give this the rating it well deserves

Album Rating: 4.5

I swear we've had this conversation before, Trif