Portishead is the second studio album by English band Portishead, released on September 16, 1997 by Go! Discs. With Portishead, the band chose to eschew sampling other records, which had a defining feature of their debut album Dummy. Instead, they created original pieces which they weaved into the songs, resulting in a more textured sound. The only song to employ samples was "Only You", which incorporates elements of Ken Thorne's "Inspector Clouseau" and The Pharcyde's "She Said". Read more on Last.fm.
Resisting the curse of the sophomore album, Portishead’s eponymous follow up to DUMMY eschews spies for spaghetti westerns, wavering between melancholy and straight creep-out.