Listen to Portishead’s “Third”, plus some initial thoughts
Thanks to Overstreet for this tip: you can listen to Portishead’s Third, in its entirety, courtesy of Last.fm.
Meanwhile, AngryApe has this to say about the album:
Lets cut straight to it, has ‘Third’ been worth the eleven year wait? Well, yes, just about. ‘Third’ is a great record that, like Portishead’s previous outings, takes a dozen listens before you even begin to enjoy and understand how its beauty, complexity, subtleness and dense layers combine to create the mystifying whole you’re trying to deconstruct.
I’ve think I’ve listened to the entire album about twice now, thanks to various online outlets (e.g., Last.fm, MySpace), and I have a feeling that Third will be to 2008 what Scott Walker’s The Drift was to 2006. Granted, Third is quite a bit more accessible and listenable than The Drift in just about every way, but like The Drift, I have feeling that Third will cast a shadow that looms large over everything else I hear this year.
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Michael Henaghan
2 years, 3 months ago
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Jason
2 years, 3 months ago
Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.Love it too, I didn’t think it was possible but Beth Gibbons sounds better than ever! I can hear hints of Kraftwerk and Silver Apples, but it is still definitely Portishead—it’s undeniable.
The live thing on Current TV was simply jaw-dropping and I would say they are about the only band on the planet that comes close to Radiohead in a live setting, in my humble opinion anyway
Yeah, I definitely hear some krautrock influences on the album as well. But there’s also a strangely pastoral sense to the whole thing as well. It’s those contradictions that make me love it so, I think.