It's not that Portishead weren't a good band in their day. Just like N.W.A. and Compton, Portishead came straight out of Bristol and changed the way we looked at music. Together with Massive Attack, they made electronics a house hold product, and brought quality music to the masses.

I can't deny the beauty in Beth Gibbon's voice and I'm not ashamed to say that I own all of their albums. But people need to know when to give up, and as soon as I heard of the soon to be Portishead comeback, I knew it ain't right.

After being played in every coffee shop around the globe for more then a decade, and years after a so-un-special solo album by Gibbons, the group has decided to record a new album and we should get it somewhere around April.

It's hard to believe it will be slightly interesting, let alone innovative. It can only do bad things: either no one will notice, or it will be pathetic. I hope for them I'm wrong, because there's still a fuzzy spot in my heart for these guys. The first song out of the new album was preformed live at The Nightmare Before Christmas ATP, and I'm sad to say that it seems like I'm right, again. BORING!

I'm not really into spooky music. I want music to calm me down, make me think or turn me into an energetic being. I don't want music to scare the living shit out of me.

I've just heard Bat for Lashes' debut album for the first time. I can't say that I like it very much. The music is way too dramatic for me, and the lead singer, Natasha Khan, sounds a bit archaic – not in a cool retro way, but in "you need to realize that trip-hop is dead" way.

Bat for Lashes' music maybe isn't my cup of tea, but the video they did for their latest single "What's A Girl To Do" is magnificent. It really is. Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that "What's A Girl To Do" is my favorite track from the album – but I think there is more to that.

The band's dark atmosphere is perfect for a video, and the director makes the best of it – from putting the beautiful Khan at the front and all the way to the so special ideas that you have to see in order to understand – it's a video you shouldn't miss. Enjoy.