monitorTHIS! - December 2008/January 2009 - (Page 36) music Spring new tunes in stores this month Better Late than never Trip-hop trailblazers Portishead finally get around to that third album Portishead Third Island F o r t h ose of us who haven’t particularly cared whether Axl Rose could muster the courage to release his first album in 14 years through a friggin’ megachain, Portishead have been the cover children for preposterous procrastination. (Not counting My Bloody Valentine.) We’ve read enough features on Beth Gibbons’ alleged crippling shyness to wonder how the hell Bristol’s trip-hop legends ever managed two full-lengths and a live album within a four-year period. So it came as a great shock—and treat—when Gibbons, Geoff Barrow and indispensable contributor Adrian Utley dropped Third 11 years after their self-titled sophomore effort. What’s remarkable is that, instead of trying to copy the minimalist isolation of past releases, Portishead accomplish the same thing via a veritable instrumental assault. Incongruous keyboards, samples and live instrumentation rattle around Gibbons singular wail, throwing the listener into a state of despair. It’s perhaps best record you’ll only probably sit through once this year. [ 36 + monitorthis! + dec 08 / jan 09 ]
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