![]() ![]() As a result, Portishead appealed to a broad audience - not just electronic dance and alternative rock fans, but thirtysomethings who found techno, trip-hop, and dance as exotic as worldbeat. ![]() The group wasn’t as avant-garde as Tricky, nor as tied to dance traditions as Massive Attack instead, it wrote evocative pseudo-cabaret pop songs that subverted their conventional structures with experimental productions and rhythms of trip-hop. Taking their cue from the slow, elastic beats that dominated Massive Attack’s Blue Lines and adding elements of cool jazz, acid house, and soundtrack music, Portishead created an atmospheric, alluringly dark sound. Portishead may not have invented trip-hop, but they were among the first to popularize it, particularly in America. ![]()
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