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A sure contender for album of the year, this beguiling collaboration between Beth from Portishead and Paul Webb of Talk Talk tips its hat to everyone from John Barry and Nick Drake to Radiohead. Stripped of hip hop beats, Gibbon's familiar Nina Simone-meets-Billie Holiday vocals hover, soar and settle over Webb's eerie landscapes, notably on Tom The Model which sees her back to her bombastic best.