Ladies and gentlemen...we have *NEW* Portishead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKm-OkHj-VM

http://www.advancetitan.com/story.aspx?s=7153

Long since forgotten by mainstream audiences, arguably one of the most influential trip-hop groups of the ‘90s have reappeared from the shadows to deliver their first album in more than a decade.
With music seeping with the doom of urban decay behind the ghastly pain-filled vocals of Beth Gibbons, Portishead surprised everyone with the release of “Third.” This album marks the third studio album by Portishead, preceded by 1994’s “Dummy” and their self titled second album in 1997.

A lot has changed in music since Portishead last put out an album. In 1997 trip-hop was a blooming sub-genre characterized by a gloomy and darkened blend of hip-hop, jazz and house music but today is nearly non-existent. But what’s really apparent is that although “Third” could not be confused with any other band, Portishead didn’t try to recreate what put them and the whole Bristol scene on the map in their heyday. With this album Gibbons and co. strayed from the hipster and indie-snob loving genre they helped build alongside other Bristol area bands, like Massive Attack, and substituted the hip-hop for industrial psychedelia.

The first single from the album, “Machine Gun,” is just a glimpse into this trance-educing industrial world Portishead has created. So aptly named for it’s drum machine processed synthetic assault on your ears, this track could invoke soldier flashbacks and is probably going to be what the apocalypse sounds like. It bellows a low and vibrating bass that will make your hair stand on end and then in a snap of your fingers, the synthesizers appear at the end of the track to beam you back to whatever planet Portishead has been occupying the last 10 years.

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:bounce: HE FUMBLES :rofl:

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good stuff.

Trip Hop is not dead.

I was so ready too :loveya: I've been wearing my old Portishead shirt everywhere I go!! I watched their performance from Portishead, England online a couple weeks ago and loved it :loveya: Then a friend of mine saw them at Coachella.. they saw Prince and Portishead in the same day, if I'd seen that I could die happy.
I'm hoping they'll do a concert on the East coast, we're not getting tickets to some other bands we want to see because I'm waiting to pay for Portishead and we might have to drive a long way to the concert, but I don't care, it's been over ten years since I saw them. I was on the front row too, something I'll never stop bragging about.

I was in our kitchen Sunday afternoon and we had the tv on in the living room while dear hubby was watching the Braves game. In the background for some stupid station ad/Braves thingy was Portishead!

I have never heard them pop up on tv like that before. It was sweet!

I hope the rest of the album is more listenable. Assault on the ears, indeed.

It wasn't bad, it's just too much percussively obnoxious - even on a laptop speaker, it quickly gave me a headache.