King Midas Sound - Goodbye GirlThere are a couple songs on King Midas Sound's "Waiting For You" that suggest the same sort of dark, trapped feeling as Portishead's second record, and "Goodbye Girl" is one of those. With Portishead's songs (at least on the first two albums), one of the most appealing aspects of the music is the tension between the production (the popping vinyl, the heavy beats--everything sounds machined) and Beth Gibbons's bright voice. Roger Robinson's voice is capable of the same dramatic inflections as Gibbons's voice, but where Gibbons often sounds like she's using her voice to resist the gloom of the music, Robinson sounds like he's resigned, defeated, done. It's especially apparent in "Goodbye Girl," I think, because of Kiki Hitomi's voice, which seems like it's trying to rouse Robinson's into action, but cannot.[Buy Waiting For You]