All Mine

by Portishead

All Mine cover art

Leaning heavily into the aesthetics of vintage spy thriller soundtracks, the track pairs classic trip-hop breakbeats with a dramatic, blaring brass section. Beth Gibbons delivers a remarkably powerful, almost Shirley Bassey-esque vocal performance detailing a fiercely possessive, obsessive romantic attachment. It successfully broadened the group's sound beyond murky minimalism while retaining their signature sense of cinematic dread.

Genres

  • Trip Hop
  • Crime Jazz

Tracklist

  1. All Mine
  2. All Mine - Instrumental
  3. Cowboys
  4. Cowboys - Instrumental