Third | 
 enlarge | Artist: Portishead
Label: Universal
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  65 reviews
Sales Rank: 34
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 49
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602517640139
EAN: 0602517640139
ASIN: B0014C2BL4
Release Date: April 28, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Silence | | • | Hunter | | • | Nylon Smile | | • | The Rip | | • | Plastic | | • | We Carry On | | • | Deep Water | | • | Machine Gun | | • | Small | | • | Magic Doors | | • | Threads |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative topor 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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 Doesn't move their sound forward and is dull July 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the most boring albums I've heard recently, as a fan of 'Dummy' this bears little resemblance to what was an amazing sound with amazing vocals. Here the music sounds old and tired, the vocals are nowhere near as impressive and it greatly disappointed me that only one track (magic doors) comes anywhere near to the brilliance of 'Dummy'.
Every other track on this album is monotonous and a waste of time - but hey perhaps you'll like it! For me I can think of many other groups who still push the boundaries and make interesting tunes while Portishead wallow in this dreary depressing rubbish that doesn't even compare to their debut from ten years ago(?)
Indeterminable songs for mongs July 7, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Background music - yes - but other than that sorry i just dont get it ... a collection of beats and signing with no real direction or melody ... if you're a fan then well done you obviously got it - but this is a bit to trippy & out there for me ...
Give me Muse any day of the week!!
 Brilliant! July 7, 2008
This album bears repeated listening, and after a while it clicks and you realise just how good it is.
The Rip - song of the year
Too long away... June 29, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm going to make this short and sweet as I don't want to waste too much time, but in the time between albums 2 and 3, it seems to me that Portishead have simply spent the years collecting every single annoying noise that they can find, and slapping it together in an effort to create "music".
Don't get me wrong, I've been a Portishead fan since the start, and regularly listen to self-titled, and PNYC, but THIS! I'm disappointed, sorely so.
 Only for fans June 27, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Frankly it's not hard listening, it's just plainly unlistenable! The noise and all the orchestration should be very innovative while they are in fact reminiscent of 70s industrial music and some pink floyd more sperimental stuff, only that this was 30 yrs ago, you would expect something new from a band which was at the forefront of the innovation when they first came out, not just a bad replay of Kraftwerk stuff! Furthermore, they spent years working on background noises and then forgot to write decent melodies to go along with them. Funnily enough Beth Gibson's solo record was just great and had fantastic melodies while this is pure noise with Beth moaning over it. Overall I cannot save one single song, don't trust the other reviewers, it's only for fans!
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