Portishead Portishead (2 Lp's) Bertha Mono Tico Torres

Tico Torres

The band leaves behind the two-guitars-over-a-quirky-rock-beat ethic of their previous work

touching on controversial topics be it his CSN&Y masterpiece about the student massacre at Kent State ("Ohio")

the switches in rhythm and the layers of chugging drums catching you off beat

Depeche Mode's U

Portishead Portishead (2 Lp's) Bertha Mono Tico TorresPortishead: Beth Gibbons (vocals); Adrian Utley (guitar, piano, Fender Rhodes piano, Moog synthesizer, bass); Geoff Barrow (drums). Additional personnel includes: John Baggot (samples); Sean Atkins (background vocals). Like Soul II Soul a few years before them, Portishead spearheaded a revolution in both pop and dance music by introducing a distinctive new groove. Portishead was at the vanguard of the '90s trip hop onslaught, and after a three year