Portishead (album)

Portishead
Portishead studio album
Publication (s)	September 30, 1997
Label (s)	Go! Discs / London
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Trip hop
Title (number)	11
running time	50 min 3 s
occupation	Singing: Beth Gibbons Guitar: Adrian Utley DJ: Geoff Barrow
production	Portishead, Dave McDonald
chronology Dummy (1994) Portishead Third (2008)
Single releases September 8, 1997 All mine November 10, 1997 Over March 2, 1998 Only you

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Portishead   DE 7th 10/13/1997 (18 weeks)   AT 6th 10/12/1997 (9 weeks)   CH 11 10/12/1997 (8 weeks)   UK 2 10/11/1997 (22 weeks)   US 21st 10/18/1997 (16 weeks)

Singles

All mine   UK 8th 09/20/1997 (4 weeks) Over   UK 25th 11/22/1997 (4 weeks) Only you   UK 35 03/14/1998 (2 weeks)

Portishead is the second album by the trip-hop band from Bristol of the same name . It was released about three years after its highly acclaimed predecessor Dummy and at the same time marks the beginning of an eleven year waiting period for the third studio album, Third . The songs All Mine , Over and Only You were released as singles.

Track list

1. Cowboys (Barrow, Gibbons) - 4:38
2. All Mine - 3:59
3. Undenied (Barrow, Gibbons) - 4:18
4. Half Day Closing - 3:49
5. Over - 4:00
6. Humming - 6:02
7. Mourning Air - 4:11
8. Seven Months - 4:15
9. Only You (Barrow, Gibbons, Utley, Thorne , Hardson, Stewart ) - 4:59
10. Elysium - 5:54
11. Western Eyes - 3:57

(All titles by Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons & Adrian Utley unless otherwise noted.)

Samples

As on the band's debut album, there are also some samples from other musicians on this album . This concerns the song Only You with samples by Ken Thorne's Inspector Clouseau , The Pharcydes She Said and the song Western Eyes with a sample by Hookers & Gin by Sean Atkins Experience .

Reviews

The album is a bit behind its critically acclaimed debut, but has also been called a "brilliant record" .

In various album-of-the-year-1997 rankings, the album achieved top places, including in Melody Maker (18th place), in NME (32nd place), Spin (6th place) and in Q (in the top 50; no order) .

Film music

Some pieces on the album were used as film music or in series, including Undenied in Unter dem Sand and Only You in Warehouse 13 (Season 1, Episode 5).

Web links

• Review at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
2. ↑ Rolling Stone on Portishead's second album in the review of Dummy. - 500 best albums of all time (Rolling Stone)