Last year’s re-activation of Portishead seems to have really kicked the band’s sampling/electronics wizard into high gear. First, Barrow went to work producing the Horror’s second album, the brilliant Primary Colours. Now, he’s released an album by his new band, Beak, and has revealed that Portishead is back in the studio working on new music, which he described as possibly being a “multi-layered synthesizer record.’ A relief for all the fans who waited 11 years for the band’s last album, 2008′s Third.
You can find “Mirror’s Image” off of their album Primary Colours.
Horrors, The
Primary Colours
When the Horrors first grabbed attention in 2007 with a video directed by reclusive Aphex Twin associate Chris Cunningham, you could literally feel the buzz wash over you, even if the band's frantic post-punkabilly attack seemed one-dimensional. A second dimension was added in the form of audience baiting live shows that still got the UK music press in a lather 30 years after the Sex Pistols were gobbed upon. But the general consensus was that these five gothed-out dandies were more style than substance. Fortunately, Cunningham wasn't the only ...










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