Literally just realised that the trip in trip hop means trip like on drugs.
You know what to do
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5 from me. āDummyā and āThirdā are truly great albums and āPortisheadā is very good.
āThe Ripā is the track i play the most but āHalf Day Closingā from the 2nd album isnāt far behind, itās a bit underrated i think.
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Belle and Sebastian hgwtr
A 5/5 for me. As a gloomy teenager they were an absolutely perfect soundtrack to self indulgent introspection. As a gloomy adult theyāre perfect late Autumn night music. Their ATP curation was one of the best weekends of my life despite breaking up with my ex there.
Also Geoff Barrow curated a one day thing at Colston Hall in Bristol where Crippled Black Phoenix played with an orchestra and ZU were in the entrance hall. Fantastic.
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As she Grimly walked away
Iām leaving you she said.
And I had nothing new to say
Like the 2nd album by portishead
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girlfriend in a coma
with a face like hana mandlikova
whenever she served to stay in the match
oh yeah.
the poems were shit
decent but never got that into them. 90s singles always sounded a bit dated to me but i should listen to those albums properly. Third was quite good though, always loved Machine Gun.
prefer Beak> really.
probably gonna abstain on the vote on the grounds of not really having delved far enough into their catalogue
Beth Gibbons is one of the greatest, ever
thereās loads of singers i love who can sing loud and absolutely ruin me emotionally
thereās almost none who can do the same when singing softly but sheās one
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5 plus I forgot how good was their ATP line up in 2007 I mean holy shit
Remember moaning about how disappointed I was in Sparklehorse as he was boring. Wish I didnāt say that now 
Third is probably the best-produced album ever. Couldnāt make that sentence work however many times I tried to write it but you KNOW WHAT I MEAN
Sonically the best like
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The ādatedā production on Dummy is actually a big draw for me, makes me feel like Iām listening to the radio in some retrofuturist game like Fallout or Bioshock
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honestly have no idea whatās so dated about Dummy compared to anything else produced in the 90s
If anything the old samples make it sound pretty timeless to me
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Donāt think theyāve really put a foot wrong tbh. Havenāt listened to Dummy nor s/t in a while but regularly stick on Third. Out of Season is something really special too! Bethās voice is just unworldly.
Pretty great/5. Never got into them initially.Didnāt hate them or anything, just didnāt quite get the fuss and wasnāt too bothered.
Fast forward however many years and Iām inadvertently watching Jools Holland and they launch into Machine Gun. Blown away and the other two songs they played (The Rip and We Carry On, I think) were almost as good. Love that album and the BEAK> stuff but have still never gone back to revisit the early albums.
Have you heard the Quakers album? Thereās a couple of Bristol rappers on that iirc. Superb record 
If B&S had recorded their first two albums*, a live album, and then waited a decade before producing another (which comprised the best songs theyād written between 1998-2008) theyād be a clear 5
* well, three, really. And the EPs before Isobel left