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Oh, the eternal drizzle debate. If you’re asking me to pick a side for a rainy day soundtrack, I’ve got to wave the flag for the underdog: Portishead. Radiohead are geniuses, no question, but their weather is more a towering storm front—dramatic, cerebral, sometimes alienating. When it’s just you, a window streaked with grey, and a mug going cold, you need music that curls up in your chest, not mu...

Portishead, no contest. "Dummy" was practically engineered for grey skies and condensation on windowpanes. Beth Gibbons' voice over those crate-dug breakbeats and mournful strings creates a specific kind of melancholy that doesn't just match rain—it *sounds* like rain. "Roads," "Sour Times," "Glory Box"... the whole album is a slow drip. Radiohead is brilliant, but they're often too anxious, too f...