#Adrian Utley

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The Cycle​/​The Spiral: Time To Go Down Slowly by Algiers from the album The Underside of Power

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Portishead - “Roads” at Roseland, NYC - 1998

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Now, this is exciting. Courtney Love, Thurston Moore, Deb Googe, and Adrian Utley have been working on a secret project together at Konk Studios in London, involving covers of Marianne Faithfull songs.

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Portishead: Dummy

Go! Discs 828 522-1, 2000

Originally released: 22 August 1994

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Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, Adrian Utley

Depressingly fantastic! Gibbons rips my heart out of my chest and eats it for lunch wearing a grin with just a song.

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30 years ago today , Portishead released their debut studio album “Dummy”

Released：22 August 1994

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137 - Drums and Sax

2024 is the year of free rock

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Sour Times - Portishead, intimate piano / vocal cover.

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this is 30 years old today and still relevant

Portishead

Dummy (1994)

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Great interview with the vague non-answer to "Will we ever get another Portishead album?" that I wholly expected and a comment praising Taylor Swift I absolutely did not expect (to spare you the click if that's all you care about, he's impressed with how she re-recorded her albums and encourages young musicians to take control of their music from the start)

I'd give up a toe or maybe a pinky finger for another Portishead album. Preordered my Live From Roseland remastered limited red vinyl + the limited 10 inch vinyl with Sour Times and Roads live from other shows in 1998. I still need to pick up Beth's album on vinyl, I can't believe they released Portishead at the same time as her album lol these people never release ANYTHING let alone multiple things I cannot all afford at once

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adrian utley & will gregory -- amnesia

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PERFUME GENIUS AT BEARSVILLE THEATER.

Photos by Christopher Hall.

Ten years ago Perfume Genius, the music project of Michael Hadreas, released Too Bright. The album felt transformative - like a door being kicked open in your mind. Too Bright, co-produced by Adrian Utley of Portishead and Ali Chant, was lauded by every music critic from here to the further reaches of the solar system.

Brandon Stousy's fantastic review of the album in Pitchfork puts the album into better words than I ever could - "Too Bright is, by far, Hadreas' most extroverted album to date, a record about shattering illusions, defiantly looking away when you feel like it, and boldly staring back at those who hate you. It's also about personalizing your experience, and rejecting the clichés placed on it by outsiders."

In celebration of the ten year anniversary of Too Bright, Perfume Genius has hit the road to play the album front to back. I photographed Perfume Genius back in 2015 at Stage 48 in New York City following the release of Too Bright. I remember the surge of electricity through the crowd as "Queen" - a contender for one of the absolute best songs of the '10's - reached its crescendo at the end of the set. Last night "Queen" settled into the second spot on the show's setlist, a remarkable show placement - but one representative of the album's sequencing. Hadreas commented on how strange it was to play "Queen" that early in the set having closed countless shows with it in the years since.

It felt right though. As the album has seeped into people's lives over the past ten years, through headphones or car speakers, we all started by hitting play on "I Decline" at the front of the album. The soft piano keys of "I Decline," in a tango with Hadreas' voice, fills the rocket ship with gasoline before "Queen" pushes the button to take off. As Hadreas launched into "Queen" last night I felt that similar electric current move through the crowd, but it wasn't the one I felt in 2015 in Stage 48. The feeling was closer to memories of the album playing late at night in the decade since its birth, a warm atmosphere for any number of moments. The album's impact is a large and lasting one - it has become a part of people's memories. Dear Michael Hadreas, thanks for ten years of a great album and for writing "Fool."

Check out everything Perfume Genius over here.

Christopher Hall posts over here. Still trying to figure out how to be in two places at once.

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Portishead - “Strangers” live at the Roseland Ballroom, NYC (1998)

🔥

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shuffle meme!

rules: shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people. i was spiritually tagged by natalie @sharkodactyl yippee !!!

one and only - oliver tree

the only time - nine inch nails

trouble - daniel ash & adrian utley

alpha - chrissy

ticking away - valorant

corona radiata - nine inch nails

a familiar taste - trent reznor & atticus ross

flowers - phem

wolves - missio

what was i made for? - billie eilish

okaaaayyy @agaywithcoffee @night-dark-woods @herbeloveve @horrid-queer @lesbian-hannibal @greatoldone @annnnperkins @killbillieve @killingg-eve aaaaand you!!! i tag you!!!

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Will Gregory Moog Ensemble - Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project

I think this one deserves a meme:

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble announce their debut album, Heat Ray, an album inspired by the work of Archimedes, the Greek mathematician who lived and worked in the third century BC. The album - recorded by the ensemble on analogue synthesisers, alongside the BBC National Orchestra of Wales - is set for release on vinyl, CD and download on 14 June 2024 via Mute. The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – which at times, comprises up to fourteen players – was formed by Ivor Novello winning musician, producer and co-creator of Goldfrapp, Will Gregory. Although they have been performing together since 2005, it took Archimedes to bring the ensemble together to commit these spirals of melody, circular structures, sequences, and patterns to tape. The album’s inspiration occurred during the pandemic lockdowns, when Will started digging into the mathematician’s life, after watching lectures online. “I became a bit of a YouTube fiend. Attending all these lectures I would never normally go to on subjects I had no business to be interested in. Scratch any of these maths gurus and it turned out Archimedes was their favourite mathematician. I wanted to find out why.” The ensemble’s members – a talented bunch who have worked with the likes of Florence & the Machine and Dua Lipa - include Portishead’s Adrian Utley, a longtime collaborator of Will’s, who plays on the album and produced it. Mute’s Daniel Miller is its “kind of executive producer”, and he even played on one of the tracks. “Given he’s been into synths right from his early days, and is a genius with them, that was a good moment”, alongside John Baggott, Graham Fitkin, Simon Haram, Vyvyan Hope-Scott, Ross Hughes, Hazel Mills, Daniel Moore, Hinako Omori, Eddie Parker, Harriet Riley and Ruth Wall, their instruments include Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Korg 700s, Prophet 6 and Roland JX3P, their individual lines coming together in intricate arrangements creating a stunning superstructure of sounds. Heat Ray takes the fertile imagination and application of those incredible times, and adds an effervescent spirit of discovery to the mix, one that often crackles and sparkles when musicians are powerfully inspired to make music together. Another legacy of Archimedes’ work rises up as a consequence – an album that brings ancient history into the modern world, pushing us towards an endlessly curious fascinating future. 

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Beth Gibbons got the ball rolling, Geoff Barrows rocked on with BEAK>, and now Adrian Utley, the third amigo from Portishead, is hitting us with a brand-new album. “Strangeness Oscillation” by 137 finds the quartet flaunting their passion for spontaneous improvisation. It’s like they’ve stitched the very essence of jazz, chaos, rawness and creativity straight into their sleeves, where every unexpected turn and twist in the music feels like an uncharted journey. The album doesn’t just play – it converses, argues, jokes, and occasionally takes a wild leap into the unknown, leaving you in delightful suspense. Absolutely worth a listen!