In early April, before the near-universal acclaim for Portishead’s Third had started pouring in, the most striking thing about the impending album was the fact that their music was still alive at all so many years after Dummy. The existence of My Brightest Diamond is arguably even better proof of that, though: songwriter Shara Worden has been most successful as one of Sufjan Steven’s supporting musicians, but her solo work sometimes delves into the same melding of electronics and melancholy which defined early Bristol trip-hop in the early 1990s, often with crashing guitars and light orchestral flourishes taking the place of the soul-searching minimalism.

My Brightest Diamond - Something Of An End
My Brightest Diamond - Inside A Boy
My Brightest Diamond - Golden Star [Alias remix]
My Brightest Diamond - Freak Out [Panique mix]

Also performing: Clare and the Reasons, who do their Brooklyn pop thing bolstered with the titular composer’s Berklee jazz brains.