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Third
by: Portishead

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517664005
Label: Mercury
Manufacturer: Mercury
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mercury
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Studio: Mercury
Sales Rank: 33
MPN: 001114102

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk:
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation. --Louis Pattison

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- THIRD, FOURTH, they can go till 100 !!!!
What a masterpiece, great voice and beats...Protishead deserve a great medal for been the pionner of this paradox music...

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- It is hard to comprehend where their heads were at ? This is not the Band I Once knew.....
I am a little lost on this one ? I have absolutely no idea what they where thinking or doing ? I have been a fan of this band since 1994's masterpiece "Dummy" and even liked "Portishead's (2nd). For years I couldn't understand for the life of me why they never returned? Well, it is pretty self explanatory they had nothing left in them to give. When I heard that this was finally the year the actual release was coming.. I was excited. For years there had been many groups that duplicated their sound or right out claimed to be Portishead. I listened to this album three times and never went back which isn't a good sign. This sounds not to far off from the Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man project ! So what was the need in having the group you can barely tell their present !

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- Portishead
A very "Portishead" CD, yet still innovative. Rather dark with an underlying 60's B-movie feel to it.

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- Great return and atypical in many ways
In many ways "Third" doesn't sound anything like previous Portishead stuff: it lacks strong trip hop tones/themes, some songs veer on experimental instrumentation, and the music is lyrically quite bleak (I know this could be said of their other stuff, but at least in the past there was some lightness to it). This isn't the type of album that's an easy listen, nor one that has standout tracks per say but rather, it is an album to be enjoyed in its entirety. More rock and electro-clash than anything, the album boasts some complex arrangements but suffers because of Gibbons. A strong vocalist in her own way, in other Portishead work she was the glue keeping the tracks together; here, you could almost not hear her voice, she's so overwhelmed by the instumentation going on with her. (A strong ... Read More

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- Tainting of a Legacy
The first album in over a decade from Portishead is a puzzling disappointment. Did they suddenly forget that they make trip-hop somewhere in the last 10 years?

This album is meandering and and dull, but many apologists will classify it as "experimental." This is a prime example of how fame or notoriety can make people will themselves into liking something. If this album were released by a no-name group it would be slammed, but because it happens to be a "Portishead" album it receives immediate praise.

Where are the drums? Where are the haunting yet catchy melodies? I WANTED to like this album and even gave it some repeat listens to see if it would grow on me, but no matter how much you spray perfume on crap it still stinks.

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