Portishead - Roseland NYC Live best of the year and these computer ballads bring

and these computer ballads bring Polymer close to the sort of records Mark Pritchard has been crafting of late

is all about connections

pressed on 180-gram black vinyl and housed in a single tip-on jacket

more unpredictable terrains via Lopatin's use of samplers

The Scottish band The Blue Nile has enjoyed a mystique contrived by its inaccessibility and the infrequency of its recordings

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live best of the year and these computer ballads bringPortishead are an English band formed in 1991 in Bristol. They are often considered one of the pioneers of trip hop music. The band are named after the nearby town of the same name, eight miles west of Bristol, along the coast. Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on their first records. Live shows also featured [a=DJ Andy Smith]. Their debut album,