The thread for Portishead "Third"

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

Danbunny - link deleted. Sorry, but sharing entire albums here isn't really cool.

I've also pretty much stopped listening to this until I get a real copy.

Does anyone know if that early leak was final master or not? I hope so.

That leak = not the final master apparently.

i'm not that bothered either way but if the switch to fx drums part of 'machine gun' was recorded live then cool, otherwise that bit could be tidier

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

Haha - I was thinking exactly the same thing about the upcoming Ladytron album, but I suppose I could also say this re. the new Portishead. God knows when/if that Cure album is gonna come out anyway.

Sad Robert Smith is Sad

http://i28.tinypic.com/2n0oh7c.jpg

I hate you so much, ugh.

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.

It is and we do.

hahah

barista/fine arts students

paul morleys comebacks on BBC2s Later reviewing this.
someone compared some of it to Neubautens industrial styles : marks and spencers industrial, and then finished with demented new age

guess he's not a fan.

Live performance here: http://current.com/items/88899146_portishead_in_portishead

legit version leaked.
in other news: i hate saying "legit"

it's just okay, you know? an okay portishead album. it'd like to say that if they'd released it in 2002 or something i'd feel more excited and happy about it but, really, i don't think that'd have been the case.

If they'd released it in 2002 it would probably have been hit with a wall of "lol 90s" disinterest and slipped into relative obscurity, a bit like Massive Attack's 100th Window. That might still happen, but I doubt it.

Is the 'legit' leak any different to the old leak then?

sounds a bit better.

100th Window is great.

Matt DC very OTM -- and I still think 100th Window is very, very, very good.

Ah ok - presumably there aren't 5 second gaps at the end of each either? I was a bit worried that the original leak was some sort of rough mix or something.

Live on Jools Holland tonight, 10pm, BBC2 for Britishers (and again on the full-length program on Friday). What is point of 'live' Jools Holland? No-one's actually going to really fuck anything up are they?

well then what's the point of doing it not live?

i think there still might be the gaps inbetween songs.

I don't really care either way if it's live, I just don't see the point of having a 30minute live show on Tuesday, and then an hour one on Friday with all the live bits and then an extra 30minutes of 'as live' stuff. Especially if I have to watch two songs and 'chat' of that Arctic Monkeys chap (his new band sound like Space. What's the point of that?).

Geoff Barrow did sort of fuck up the drumming on Machine Gun though, so I've seen my arse here.

xpost.

Bit annoyed that (surprisingly palatable) Arctic Monkeys side project thingy was deemed worthier of two songs than Portishead.

All in all, I didn't mind anything in this ep of Later, though acoustic guitar and harmonica dude was quite dull - sorry to get off topic.

Bit annoyed that (surprisingly palatable) Arctic Monkeys side project thingy was deemed worthier of two songs than Portishead.

All in all, I didn't mind anything in this ep of Later, though acoustic guitar and harmonica dude was quite dull - sorry to get off topic.

Ak, double post.

thematically and sonically, this reminds me (in a good way) of scott walker the drift

"Machine Gun" at the end of Later OBLITERATED the whole of the preceding half hour - haha nervous Cameronite audience!

I looked at Donald Sutherland for two whole minutes before I realised it was Eric Burdon.

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3158523

anybody know who did publicity for this album? i dl'd a zip and wrote the review, my editor wants promo art

the Coachella webcast sounded great, sound quality was pretty good for a webcast, nice camera work, etc. and the new songs were integrated well into the set. album in stores tuesday; anyone else waiting to hear it then?

they were inmense at coachella.

sia michel's 1.5 star review in blender is just dumb.

Tiny mix tapes review couldn't be more idiotic:

Third exists to be listened to, ironically, in places like coffee-shops; the difference between this and past work is that this record might make casual listeners frown over their coffees. Again, that’s probably Portishead’s intent

That is written by someone who thinks they're a hell of a lot cleverer than they really are.

So where is everybody who held out for the legal release?

i'm getting it today! haven't heard the full album, just the "machine gun" single and new songs from youtube (ATP, Coachella)

also, this Amazon review is golden:

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
SO DIFFERENT BUT OH SO SCRUMPTIOUS!, April 29, 2008
By Scott Daly "scottysauce" (San Ramon, Ca United States) - See all my reviews

I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THIS THIRD ALBUM FOR MANY MONTHS NOW AND I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN. SURE IT HAS MANY NEW SOUNDS BUT IT PUSHES PORTISHEAD INTO A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF GREAT MUSIC. PORTISHEAD A SEXY ROCK BAND? YOU BE THE JUDGE! AFTER MANY YEARS OF WAITING FOR ANYTHING NEW THEY TRULY DELIVER THE GOODS. BE SURE TO GIVE IT MORE THAN JUST ONE LISTEN BECAUSE LIKE ANYTHING GREAT IT GROWS ON YOU AND NEVER LET'S GO. IF YOU LOVE PORTISHEAD LIKE I DO YOU MUST CLICK YES! :)

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burning it soon!! excited. single sounds great

1. This album is king.
2. Does 'Silence' cut off like that on the official release or not?

Yes, it does.

Portishead makes me think of brick wall cafes and poetry slams and people wearing those big hat.s you know the ones I'm talking about