Source: Entertainment Weekly, October 3, 1997

PORTISHEAD Portishead (Go!Beat/London)

Trip-hop? More like creep-hop. This sophomore spook-athon from chilly U.K. combo Portishead clanks across the attic, via Geoff Barrow's skeletal samples and funereal keyboards. Beth Gibbons' surgical-steel voice slices into her partner's scraps of musical meat, for an effect that's hypnotic, bloodless, and addictive. Halloween can't be far behind. A -

Tom Lanham