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Portishead - Roseland NYC Live

Roseland NYC Live

by Portishead

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Released
18/06/1999
Music Genre
Alternative

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Description

PNYC captures Bristol, England's Portishead live, a situation which presents a particular challenge to a band so closely associated with studio experimentation. Portishead's sound, however, is built around the otherworldly vocals of Beth Gibbons, who immediately dispels any notion that such a performance needs to have anything canned about it. The spontaneity is helped along by a stunning palette of guitars, which combine with the the band's imaginative turntable work to create a thrilling, bombastic and unpredictable live experience. PNYC opens up with the swell of a string section, and quickly dissolves into the menacing, orchestrated strains of "Humming," over which Gibbons gives a stirring vocal performance, every bit as spontaneous as the rhythmic scratching which weaves in and out of the song's organ-based backdrop. "Over" features a particularly seductive voice-guitar intro, which mutates into an epic, gargantuan bass-synth groove. Guitar textures are, in fact, a prominent feature throughout PNYC, notably on the rocked-up, tremolo-soaked six-string that dominates the live version of the band's signature tune, "Sour Times."

Product Details

Artist
Portishead
Recording Environment
Live
Label / Studio
POLYDOR
WOW HD Sales Rank
#3217
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
1998
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
1998
Number of Discs
1
CD 30days Sales Rank
#2619
Cast & Crew
Portishead (Music Performer)
Portishead (Producer)

Press Reviews

- Rating: A-

...With a 30-piece horn and string section, the group pumps up its cloistered fretting to an epic scale here. Chanteuse Beth Gibbons is downright fierce, while Adrian Utley's gnashing guitar pushes her love laments deep into Fatal Attraction territory... Entertainment Weekly (11/27/98, p.84)

4 stars out of 5 - "...takes their shadowy operation to the next level....Stumble over this way and tune in to the ecstacy of the agony. Muzik (12/98, p.68)

...explores the virtues of seeing truly elegant wallpaper in concert... Spin (12/98, p.179)

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  1. Humming
  2. Cowboys
  3. All Mine
  4. Your Mama Don't Dance
  5. Only You
  6. Half Day Closing
  7. Over
  8. Glory Box
  9. Sour Times
  10. Roads
  11. Strangers
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