Manufacturer: Mercury
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative topor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz ...
Manufacturer: Universal
Manufacturer: Warner
Manufacturer: Universal / Island
Manufacturer: Cooking Vinyl
Manufacturer: Polydor Group
What do you do after you've reinvented a genre? Well, going on Graduation, the third full-length artist album by hip-hop's most famous Noughties auteur Kanye West, you hunt across the pop landscape for fresh sounds ripe for plunder. Most obviously, there's Daft Punk, whose track "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" forms the vocoder foundation to "Stronger". But Kanye's learnt more from the ...
Manufacturer: Atlantic
