Spooky, spine chilling, frightening in places? Depressing? Moody, dark but tuneful. Scratchy, fuzzy, old records being scratched by a DJ bloke. Echoing drums and looping keyboards, alarming to some. Bleak? A haunting voice, a supernatural voice. That would be the new Portishead album right there, all summed up in those words. Well, those words and these other ones. This album is incredible, it's a must buy, it's hard to listen to, Beth Gibbons' voice sounds so sad, so forlorn in a way it depresses you somehow. The first track Cowboys especially made me wanna go "Oh cheer the fuck up missus...." but it's effective, it's powerful so that's a good thing. And this whole collection of music sounds so, so 'old' in a way, kind of muffled as if they recorded the whole thing, put it on a record, beat up the record, and then recorded the record being played on a crappy broken turntable. Great effect there Portishead!! Beth's vocals really stand out, on Seven Months she even sounds like she's pretending to sing "Goldfinger" or something. *grin* Classic.......actually my only fault with this album is the track Half Day Closing. For some reason Beth's voice seems to mimic the exact tune of the song "Like Suicide" by non other than those grunger types Soundgarden!! I can't listen to that song properly without hearing Chris Cornell screaming into my ear, weird eh? This album really should have a warning sticker or something, "Don't listen if you're already maniacally depressed, you'll only go and kill yourself". You've been warned........