Trip-hop; Portishead, Massive Attack, Lamb, Morcheeba and others

An often disputed genre that aforementioned bands seem to shun to avoid pigeon-holing, it nonetheless gathered a significant deal of popularity, trip hop is mostly laid-back amalgamation of electronica, break-beats, jazz, blues and ambient, often featuring leading female vocals. Apart from the main bands, there's also Belgian "Hooverphonic", who began as a trip-hop band but since expanded their sound to include brighter, pop-influenced writing, Tricky of Massive Attack fame and a number of others who either played the style or experimented with it at one point in their career. Anyone else a fan?

a trip-hop band added me to myspace earlier but it had alot of dark influences to it... it didnt sound too bad... as in i didnt wanna vomit out of my eye sockets upon hearing it... but its not something id listen to on my own

Actually one of the VERY few forms of Electronic I can stand, hell this is also pretty enjoyable. Rob Dougan's pretty good, I hear

Love it, Portishead and Tricky especially. There is a dark, brooding atmosphere to the genre that's hard to describe.

Portishead isn't that bad...back in my radio days I used to spin the song Glory Box quite regulary....

Glory Box was the song that pretty much got me into the genre; and yeah, more often than not the bands tend to have a darker sound and/or themes.

lol btw what was the face for, mash?

Dummy and Third from Portishead = love love love! <3

^quite

Third bridged the massive gap between Dummy and self-titled P albums, I think; before that it was hard to understand where the self-titled album was coming from. not that 3rd doesn't stand on its own...

Yeah never thought much of the self-titled album tbh...

I really liked their self-titled (not as much as Dummy, of course) but Third did nothing for me.

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lol you've made your point about not liking it;

Doesn't mean I agree in any way shape or form lol