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Portishead - The Rip (Island)
UK release date: 23 June 2008
Portishead - The Rip

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While Portishead's 'Third Coming' may not have quite been the Messiah-like event that some people were predicting, there were enough moments there to demonstrate why they'd been so missed over the past decade.

The Rip was chief amongst them - a blissfully mournful four and a half minutes, beautifully produced, featuring Beth Gibbons singing about wild white horses coming to take her away, before a gloriously melancholic Kraftwerk-esque synth drifts in and lifts the song up to a whole new level altogether.

Maybe not the cheeriest number you'll hear all year but certainly one of the most dramatic, beautiful and downright magnificent pieces of music to be released in some time.


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