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...In the past 18 months, Ford has produced albums by Blur, Arctic Monkeys, Jessie Ware, The Last Dinner Party and Depeche Mode, with highly anticipated new albums by Portishead’s Beth Gibbons and the Pet Shop...
...the exuberant plasterwork found in stately homes and palaces that began to proliferate in the 16th and 17th centuries to the wooden boughs of foliage carved on to panelling by British sculptor Grinling Gibbons...
...They range from guests such as Portishead’s Beth Gibbons and controversial rapper Kodak Black to samples of self-help author Eckhart Tolle speaking....
...It could be the cri de coeur of every girl James Bond has ever stood up, with the singer Beth Gibbons unforgettable as the leading lady....
...The latter last released an album seven years ago, and have been touring this show for several years now, yet Beth Gibbons’ remarkable vocals — both strange and soothing — have made this a band with remarkable...
...The trip-hop band would lay down a soundtrack and Beth Gibbons added her haunting voice afterwards....
...Nobody would dare chat over Beth Gibbons. “Nightcall”, a cover of the obscure French electro number given wider exposure on the soundtrack to the movie Drive, was turned into a dreary melodrama....
...Beth Gibbons stood centre stage, gripping the microphone stand as though in a maelstrom, accompanied by dramatic visuals and lighting, her voice going from anguished torch singing to angry cries....
...Abrahams encouraged an electronic direction, which – while not strictly aligned with the revival of interest in 1990s trip-hop – is reminiscent of the dynamics of Beth Gibbons and Portishead....
...Expanded to a sixpiece, they opened with “Silence” from their most recent album Third, singer Beth Gibbons sounding bereft and accusatory as she sang “Did you know what I wanted?”...
...The songs, “Silence” and “Hunter”, were knockout, the first an eerie concentration of paranoid beats and Beth Gibbons’ sorrowful singing, the second a dark, numbed number about loneliness....
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