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YOU'VE heard of film noir, well, now there's a band that plays music noir--that's about the most apt description for the cinematic sound of Portishead. The band prefers not to be lumped into any particular genre, but trip-hop is the banner under which it was initially categorized by the British press, and the label has stuck--much to Portishead's distaste. Displeasure over the classification aside, Portishead's atmospheric, avant-garde pop sensibility does put it within the same lineage of musical evolution as the trip-hop outfits Massive Attack and Tricky. The term trip-hop surfaced in 1994 as a tag for the unique sound coming out of Bristol, England, the homebase of ..
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