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Third by Portishead (CD, 2008)

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“Third” is the band’s fourth album in total and first since 1998’s Roseland NYC live”. A digital version of the single will be available on and from 8pm on the 10th April.SINGLE – ‘MACHINE GUN’Physical/Digital Release date – 14th April 12”/Digital1.

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelMercury/Island

UPC0602517640139

eBay Product ID (ePID)15052292701

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2008

Era2000s

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

StyleTrip-Hop

TypeAlbum

ArtistPortishead

Release TitleThird

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Additional InformationOn Third, Portishead have created authentically new music out of familiar fragments from the past, defying almost every convention in the album's writing and arrangement.

Reviews3.5 stars out of 5 -- "THIRD is an unexpected yet totally impressive return.....Portishead mix up dub, break beats, cathedral organ, Moroccan drones and even surf rock into a headphone album for sour times.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Constantly beguiling....Throughout, Gibbons' singing gives musical and emotional coherence.", "Beth Gibbons' spectral vocals linger atop eerie, warped pulses of music to create a swirl of melancholia." -- Grade: B+, Ranked #11 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "Eleven years in the gestating, and totally worth the wait.", "Portishead pays respect to innovators like Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Wendy Carlos, and the RZA....THIRD has the blare of revolution.", Ranked #15 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "THIRD emerged as an abrasive, industrial and intimidating record...", "THIRD is far and away the best, most punk thing in the Portishead catalog: a deeply transgressive album that bears a passing similarity to its predecessors but leaves most of the baggage behind...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Listening to Portishead has always been like floating through a waking dream, but now the sleek edges have atrophied into a dusty chaos, and it's all the more beautiful and perfect for the change.", "Portishead have sidled back to express their tortured collective in more depth than most bands could ever dream off. They have subverted the natural order. Pain was never meant to feel this good.", 3 stars out of 5 -- "THIRD's sole link with the past is Gibbon's voice, now less mannered and more careworn...especially on twinkling interlude 'Deep Water'...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "Adrian Utley proves to be the key player through much of the record....Here his playing is frequently awe-inspiring....THIRD is the most stunning, stark and superb Portishead album yet.", 4 stars out of 5 -- "Positively infected with spanking new ideas....The jazz, terrifyingly, near Tropicalia prog and, gulp, ukuleles of Geoff Barrow's vast and vinyl library really come to the forefront.", Ranked #3 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "Both taut and unhinged, THIRD turns soul music into a bare-bulb interrogation of the soul."