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 ...

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It’s a good time to be a Portishead fan even if the group as a whole has been in deep hibernation for nearly a decade. In May, singer Beth Gibbons released her wonderful solo debut Lives Outgrown, and ...

Both Portishead and their vocalist Beth Gibbons tend to work slowly; the former theoretically have an album in the works, though it could take “ten fucking years” to be completed. (We’re down to seven ...

Portishead haven't released an album since Third in 2008, and before today they hadn't performed in public since the 2015 Benicàssim Festival. But the band got back together in their hometown of ...