Portishead - Third

from the site...

"REAL NEWS

23 Jan 2008

We're pleased to announce that we'll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008.

The album has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes 13 seconds long."

i can't wait, although my skepticism is high.

*Mods, help me out with the topic title please. i know, i suck.

in other news G'n'R Chinese Democracy is ready. i'll believe this when i see the cd infront of me. i am also skeptical.

Sounds interesting.

there are lots of new tracks live on youtube from recent gig. atp maybe? quality is good.

avril 14

damnit, i wanted to say "clips or stfu" but squee beat me... oh well. looking forward to this yes please!

yea maybe i jumped the gun and put all my eggs in one basket but i got a good felling about this. it's just been too long. they can't just tease us with playing new songs live and not pop out with at least one last record.

edit: and if "third" IS the title, that's just lazy.

nice interview here: http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2256187,00.html

  Quote

'This album has been like watching Lost,' he pronounced gloomily, 'a never-ending journey with few answers.'

lol

tracklist

1. Silence

2. Hunter

3. Nylon Smile

4. The Rip

5. Plastic

6. We Carry On

7. Deep Water

8. Machine Gun

9. Small

10. Magic Doors

11. Threads

Length 49:13

definitely looking forward to this one! and of course, it will be just as good as the other two. no need for skepticism whatsoever.

it would be interesting if there were a couple of instrumentals on the album as well

i lost interest in them about a year after the second one was released!

wow, I didn't realize they had released so few albums.

i'm so bored of portishead

looks like an advance of this has been leaked.

i'm kinda excited for this

half way thru this and it's pretty good actually. seems to be more minimal than the past albums, less "smokey", but it's been awhile since i listened to them.

i like the analog line in the rip, few good tracks few shit ones, will listen proper later

this is good

mmm..this is looking great, i love how economical (rather than minimal) it sounds, purposeful..everything in it's right place, every sound and instrument is significant.

this was deleted from the trackers for being a transcode, fyi

yeah this is a fishy rip, abrupt cuts and all, its quite obvious that "magic doors" should fade into "threads"..but i like how it actually sounds..warm, analog..heavy bass.

If this topic were about the new Massive Attack, I'd be skeptical.

I already knew about Portishead's third album coming out, courtesy of MySpace.

I can't wait to catch them at Coachella.

The end of Machine Gun sounds like Autechre meets the Terminator music

I approve!