The thread for Portishead "Third"

I hear some influence of the Silver Apples on "We carry on".

My first thought was that it could almost pass as one of those VU songs with Mo Tucker on vocals.
you don't mean afterhoursdo you? were there any other songs during the lifetime of vu, maureen tucker sung on?

people were saying a while back that one of the new songs played live was just a silver apples song with beth gibbons singing something else on top, right?

xp I was thinking specifically of "I'm Sticking With You."

(But "After Hours" works too. I don't have all their stuff, so I assumed maybe there were a couple others she sang on.)

"We Carry On" sounds like NIN.

haha. this thread. one for the ages. yes, we are all in this bitch together.

Gets a bad review in the new Wire!

Because it's on a major label?

too pop

Too derivative

damn those silver apples

I'll be interesting to see which reviewers dare give Portishead 08 a good one... for the past eight years, nothing's as uncool as liking mid-nineties darko electronica.

I'm expecting a 9.2 from P'Fork.

i'm thinking that i'm gonna pick this one up after the dust settles

It's £9.99 online HMV.

oops wrong thread. It's £7.99 online HMV.

i was going to get excited, then i realised that pounds aren't dollars

'we carry on' sounds like clinic to me. never bought either of the first two albums, but i'll be buying this. the ending guitar part on 'threads' reminds me of the guitar intro to 'iron man', but reversed. (pitch goes up instead of down) actually, the drum fills near the end of 'threads' also remind me of sabbath

And Clinic sounds like the Silver Apples.

heh, was going to wonder if that was the case. haven't heard enough silver apples to know. coincidentally, i did ask the local record store to order some of their albums just a couple days ago

"Third is released on April 28th, preceded by the single Machine Gun, which is available for download from April 10th and gets a physical release on April 14th."

single of the year! well, one of 'em.

God, "Silence" is a fucking awesome opener. I was all prepared to listen to this and be disappointed because I haven't had a desire to listen to their older stuff for at least a few years now, but this is like a random present from a friend when it's not your birthday. I can't wait til this comes out.

I finally decided to listen to this album really loud. That makes it about 100x better, by the way.

"Machine Gun, the first single from Third gets its first play on
Zane Lowe's Radio One show in the UK and will be simultaneously
available for download through www.portishead.co.uk

And you can pre-order the box set, limited to ten thousand
copies world-wide.

Available only through www.portishead.co.uk and including
USB memory stick, films, double vinyl, single etched vinyl
and limited addition artwork."

From today apparently, but no sign of box set pre-ordering when I just looked.

Deep Water reminds me of the Shortwave Set. Love this album, don't recognise any of the songs from ATP though.

It's up there now:
http://www.portisheadshop.co.uk/store/page4.asp?suptype=&t=1&sub_type=1&prod_id=2&col=30

LOl memory stick. Never thought Portishead would be into that--more the sort of thing Barrow would write a poorly punctuated blog about.

£40 is a bit much for that boring artwork.

The album is great though.

Is every band going to have to announce a £40 'boxset' of a vinyl copy of the album and whatever else they've got lying around now? Fanks Radiohead.

What were the expectations, that were smashed into a million pieces? And what do the pieces look or sound like?

The return of the 'art print' to albums = the 70s are here again.

Coz I'm real I prefer a really crappy poster with a 7 inch that's folded about 10 times so no one ever puts it up. Like LCD Soundsystem or QOTSA.

oh the USB stick is in the shape of a white P - that's kinda cool or at least would be if it had a bottle opener on the other end and tripled as a key ring.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/49350-portishead-machine-gun

What a waste if that's the official vid.

Yeah, it should be Beth in a bikini booty-grinding a blinged-up Adrian Uttley while he's sat in a gold throne.

corny but i kinda wanted a jonathan glazer epic-o-rama vid for this

f'real

Does anyone know if the version on the internets is the final one ?

machine gun is alright and everything, but i hope it's not the best song on the album?

HOLY SHIT

FOR REAL WHAT AM I HEARING HERE, OMG

this video (official/final video or not) is a live/session version, the studio/album version sounds different (for sale at 7digital.com (320 kbps mp3, no drm) - see portishead.co.uk )

FOR REAL WHAT AM I HEARING HERE, OMG

brilliance, I think.

it sounds really shit on that video clip tho, i mean compared to even the torrent

Okay, even with it sounding like shit that's one of the greatest things I've ever heard. The menacing stasis is just phenomenal.

The download is £0.79 , that's only like 20 dollars or something :-)

this version does sound a lot better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1HZ6H_b8JY

srsly I may never need to listen to Nine Inch Nails ever again

(Not that this is what NIN is all about, rather that this is hitting those same pleasure buttons for me)