Comments on: Portishead “Third” Review

By: coca neon

coca neon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:23:09 +0000

Oh they should stay off any digital/computer synthesized samples. It really really makes their music sounds like the rest of the digital music crap that’s all over the Internet made by 13 year olds
on their mum’s computer.

By: coca neon

coca neon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:19:12 +0000

Hmm terrible. The first song has a sample looping of a sound that reminds me of a fat guy fucking a hooker on a squeky bed. *squeak* *squeak**squeak**squeak*. It spoils the rest of the song.
And the song abruptly end as if someone cut the power to my speakers. WTF?

The rest of the songs has some notable moments, thrown in between repetetive melancholic although sleep inducing music.

This is good but nothing spectacular. The WORST Portishead album.

And oh yeah I also noticed the Terminator theme song Machinegun. This song sounds like a terrible 80s techno some 13 year old did by randomly pressing the keyboard. Really terrible.

By: Faye

Faye — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:28:02 +0000

It’s truly superb. An ethereal, celestial bliss cloaked in a thick, black smoke. It evokes asphyxiation and admittedly a stuggle to catch your breath…. a suffocating, lacerating, eerie, entracing piece of art. Hard, jagged beats accompanied with soft eerie swirls. It’s beautiful. Dark and brooding. Some of you fuckers are truly missing something quite spectacular.

By: glarg

glarg — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:03:58 +0000

Portishead will always be relevant; the writer of this review never was. Dry up and blow away.

By: Chipper Davies

Chipper Davies — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:26:56 +0000

This album is fresh, and makes me want to eat cottage cheese. for real.

By: Boni

Boni — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:14:47 +0000

Err…I seriously don’t know what to say I absolutely love Portishead but maybe they should have released it in September/ October when we are all getting in that depressively dim mood of winter, I don’t know I’m off to listen to it again maybe this time…

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:35:19 +0000

Two things that stand out for me.

Firstly time and nostalgia will always accompany Dummy. Memories are replayed and rewound. Dummy became a standard soundtrack to many a boozy hangover and nights spent under the covers with loved ones. For this reason I was always going to struggle with ‘third’. Give ‘Third’ time. Give it experience. Give it success and failure. Give it sex, give it drugs, give it hope and give it fear.

Secondly ‘Third’ is not merely experimental. Sure, it sounds different, faster and edgier, but the emotional catches are still there. There are breathtaking moments of beauty, the album is full of shadows that unravel while being bathed in moments of pure, white light (listen to ‘rip’). The warm innocence of ‘deep waters’ is adjacent to elements of film ‘noir’ mixed with cold, unassuming percussion. The album is wonderful - Lets celebrate Dummy on Cryptonite.

By: MarkusAudio

MarkusAudio — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:02:12 +0000

Hehehehehe….less than 2 months out and already turmoiling…i knew this since “Roseland”, P sound would never be the same again…and now take it or leave it…well…i´m taking it!!! YES, I AM TAKING IT!!! “Machine Gun” was my first and so far my best moment on this one, and the album shows an x amount of progress in the sound, the acoustic and the stereophony rule, and THAT Portishead feel is still there…
Sooo, when even the most fierce (official) music reviewers give “Third” a 10/10, in a 8-10 proportion, surely i´m not wrong…One of the albums of the year?!?!

By: chris

chris — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:37:23 +0000

Where is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel?

Looks like aliens abducted the real Portishead and replaced them with a bunch of second rate musicians and a monkey for a drummer!

We’ve been swindled…

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