The thread for Portishead "Third"

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)

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

It's one of the maybe three best songs on the album. But that's OK because it's actually brilliant.

that's the studio version, yeah (xxxpost)

I am totally floored.

wait till you get to "Threads."

don't tease him

Tracks are popping up all over YouTube at the moment. Don't know how anyone's still resisting.

YMMV:

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album is released on 28th april but it was leaked on 7th March.... this is the worst song on the album, cant believe theyd release it first :\ ...but the rest of the album is literally awesome

Oh wow, literally awesome!

inspiring awe

I am literally happy that the single sounds as good as it does.

The bit in the middle of Machine Gun when the sub-bass comes in, before the 80s synths, is spine-tingling - not sure if it'll really pick up on a video stream though. I love how inhuman it all sounds.

I'm really looking forward to Dan hearing Silence, or The Rip, or Small now.

I'm not sure how much I'd care for Machine Gun if not for the scary synth coda.

Y R they NIN now? :(

No, not at all. That was about Dan's pleasure buttons.

Machine Gun is the logical endpoint of their obsession with juxtaposing human frailty with mechanical coldness.

it's v Carpentery

(John not Karen)

hell of a satisfying record this.

Can someone take a shit on pitchfork already?

huh? why?

I was gonna ask...

When I loaded this into iTunes I dragged it into my "downloads" folder, and the tracks ended up in reverse order — but I didn't realize this until later. It's probably the prejudice of a first listen, but I find this arrangement more effective: it starts about as doomy as it gets, but with "Hunter" as the penultimate song there's a shimmering opening, as if suggesting redemption, though that huge whammy'd guitar sound is almost ecstatic about the doom; then with "Silence" the album goes throttling toward inevitability before getting abruptly cut off. It's like a movie that starts slow but delivers in the end when you understand where it was going.

(Except, of course, it's not supposed to go that way.)

OMG I can't believe this band released a new album. The coffee shops around here haven't finished playing their last one. Every day. For the past ten years.

'Machine Gun' is devilishly boring stuff. Really can't understand this excitement about Portishead - I was so glad that the 90s passed forever.

So far I've heard 'Machine Gun' and about two others on youtube. It's hard to criticize it really. It all sounds very well-crafted, inventive, creative with the production, very organic etc. etc.

All I know is that my reaction to the first Portishead album when it came out, and also the Beth Gibbons/Rustin' Man album, was like 'wow'. I bought them both but I've probably only played them through about five times each. I think, if I dare say it, that there is something contrived about Beth Gibbons' vocal style (despite the fact that it is very alluring and superficially appealing) and also that there are never any truly great songs, only clever, creative tracks. I don't like to seem mean spirited about people who are obviously very, very good at what they do but I think that's where they fall down and why, if I bought this album, I would probably never listen to it.

Ah, the backlash. And it's not even out yet. LOL internet

OMG I can't believe this band released a new album. The coffee shops around here haven't finished playing their last one. Every day. For the past ten years.

-- fields of salmon, Monday, March 24, 2008 6:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i don't actually believe you. "Portishead" was not a coffee shop album. we would have a lot of clinically depressed baristas if it was.

Odds are I'm going to play this Portishead album more than I'm going to play the new Cure album.

Odds are that will be true for most people here, I imagine.

Well yeah, but most people here aren't gigantic Cure zombies!

Hahaha!

I agree with Dan.

i'm looking forward to finally hearing the slowdive cover

and i'm a cure zombie who somehow deems portishead 2008 to be a lot more relevant than the cure 2008 (or was that 2009), for what it's worth

The San Francisco coffee shops I frequent do indeed play Portishead on heavy rotation.

Odds are I'm going to play this Portishead album more than I'm going to play the new Cure album.

What is this, Goth Trumps?

Yes!

I can't stop listening to "Machine Gun". It's so awesome.

great album..posx

surprised at all the rave reviews! excited

i have it if u need a zpp