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