Rating: 9/10
Glory Box, Roads, Numb... As you know, these are the miraculous Portishead songs. They are one of that groups that are impossible to categorize. NYC Live (1998) was the last Portishead record. Ten years after, the new album has arrived. It's like dance music for skeletons in a graveyard. Sometimes dark and cold, sometimes panicky and noisy. At the end it's someting new quite admirable.
Ten years! First three track Silence, Hunter and Nylon Smile are going to make the long colder and colder. Nylon Smile is a great effort. The Rip is more ballad-like track and starting acoustically then turning to a electronic rhythm. Beth Gibbons made me feel very happy, cause she had never lost her amazing vocal talent. On the other hand some of the songs like Plastic, Small are headache and they're something unnecessary. Anyway, if you consider all those other huge new songs, Third is one of the best new things in the year. The song that named with We Carry On combines rock elements electronically, I think you'll remember the Joy Division shadows with this song. Machine Gun is a simple reason how this band brings something quite impressive. Third is a miracle and miracles come after the silence.
MM picks: Nylon Smile, We Carry On, Machine Gun, Magic Doors
Portishead - Third
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Labels: new music, recommended music
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this is where there are different news about this album:
http://lavamus.com/Album/2458087/Portishead/Third/download-mp3/
Thirdddd is good,but there will never be a song like Roads again!
Ohh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel, this wrong
From this moment
How can it feel, this wrong
Storm.. in the morning light
I feel
No more can I say
Frozen to myself
I got nobody on my side
And surely that ain't right
And surely that ain't right
Ohh, can't anybody see
We've got a war to fight
Never found our way
Regardless of what they say
How can it feel, this wrong
From this moment
How can it feel, this wrong
Wow! This only goes to show that beauty is in the ear of the beholder. "Small" is my favourite track on this amazing new record, and my least favorite (by FAR) is "Machine Gun" which sounds more like a chemical Brothers effort (and an annoying one at that). But either way I don't think any Portishead fan will be disappointed, dispite the enormous expectactions they may have after such a long wait.
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