"I don't relate much now to anger at the world for misery"

To me this has always been the dividing line between sad personal music, which I like a lot, and cosmically gloomy music – Floyd/Radiohead/Joy Division – which I have never been that keen on. From what I've heard, the new Portishead stuff, like later Massive Attack, is drifting into the second category. It's where the apocalyptic sci-fi/1984 (and what a truly awful, overrated book that is) bollocks kicks in...