“Whether singing one of her own lyrics… or one of the symphony’s… she is aiming at a direct emotional injection from performer to audience. In the voices of the symphony’s text, as in life, she is a ...

A collaboration with Krzysztof Penderecki, one of Poland's greatest composers. According to a statement, Gibbons neither speaks Polish nor reads music, “but in preparation for the performance, she ...

Before this album, Portishead's 18-year career had managed to yield just two studio albums and a total of 22 songs. Only Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, a man who's spent the last 15 years perfecting ...

There’s no rapping on Portishead’s 1994 debut album Dummy, and yet the LP stands tall alongside Mobb Deep’s The Infamous and GZA’s Liquid Swords on the list of moody, meditative ’90s rap masterpieces.

On August 22, 1994, the album that would make Portishead a name in music was released to the world. “Dummy,” a moody, brooding mix of songs using hip-hop techniques like sampling, announced the ...

Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow formed the seminal trip-hop band Portishead in 1991, merging torch-song tenderness with James Bond-theme grandeur and hip-hop production. After two wildly influential CDs ...

Geoff Barrow has claimed that the third Portishead album is nearly completed. The band's last release was their self-titled LP in 1997. What to Read Next Writing on the group's website, Barrow said: ...

It took Portishead 11 years to record and release 2008’s Third, the follow-up to 1997’s Portishead, but in two recent interviews, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has said that the trio is already working on ...

Contrary to reports that April’s ten years in the making album Third would be their last release, Portishead have revealed they will record another album together. Guitarist Adrian Utley has also ...

We‘re pleased to announce that we’ll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008. The album has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes 13 seconds long. I am also pleased by that, and that Portishead ...

In a Q&A with The Quietus at Norway’s By:Larm festival, Portishead guitarist and producer Adrian Utley divulged some exciting information: that the band has begun the writing process for a new album.