Post-Punk Legend Previews New Portishead Album For Those Of Us Who Aren’t Post-Punk Legends

portishead.jpgHey, here’s a track-by-track breakdown of the forthcoming Portishead album Third. The lucky fellow allowed to audition the album months ahead of almost everyone else on planet Earth? Fellow Bristolian Mark Stewart of Pop Group, Maffia, and part-time rock critic fame. And if the cacophonous percussion on those live tracks we previewed a few months back got you excited for Portishead Version 2.0, take heart: “Similar to Massive Attack’s recent experimentation with stern electronics, throwing open the doors to a musical perspective far beyond their towering hits, Portishead, too, readjust the parameters on Third…More noise, more eclecticism, embedded in a sound that fosters continuity.” [Spex via Paper Thin Walls]

 
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  1. dog door  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    western values mean nothing to her.

  2. Ned Raggett  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    Damn. (As in, ‘damn Mark Stewart is lucky’ and ‘damn, if he says it, I WILL believe it.’)

  3. loudersoft  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    I read this review and there’s one thing I can’t tell from reading it:

    Is the shit any good or not?

  4. extracrispy  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    I love both Massive Attack and Portishead, but I’m not sure I’d call anything they’ve produced a “towering hit.”

  5. Michaelangelo Matos  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    @extracrispy: in the U.K. I’m sure things are different.

  6. loudersoft  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    @Michaelangelo Matos: “Teardrop” was an enormous hit for Massive Attack in the U.K., as was “Sour Times”. It’s arguable that “Sour Times” was incredibly successful in the U.S. as well, though I don’t know numbers.

  7. loudersoft  |   Posted on Feb 8th, 2008

    “Sour Times” for Portishead

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