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. 'Released: 24 March 2008. 'Released: 9 June 2008. 'Released: 24 November 2008Third is the third studio album by English band. It was first released on 28 April 2008 in the United Kingdom by and a day later in the United States.

Portishead's first studio album in eleven years, it moved away from the style they had popularised, incorporating influences such as, and the film soundtracks of.Third was named one of the best albums of 2008 by several publications. It entered the top ten of several countries' music charts and has by the (BPI). Contents.Background In 1998, following three years of tours and a divorce, put Portishead on hiatus and went to Australia. He told: 'I couldn't find anything I liked musically in anybody, in anything.'

Guitarist and keyboardist joined him to work on new material, but they were not satisfied with the results.In 2003, Barrow wrote ', which he described as 'an opening. Then we ended up going back and forth, hating everything and then liking everything, and we had to decide whether to carry on.' He and Utley co-produced the 2005 album. The process proved inspiring, as according to Barrow, 'here’s me and Ade, these older dudes, too scared to even play a note because we were scared we'd hate it, and there’s them, just being able to write a soundtrack in an afternoon'. Recording Portishead self-produced Third in their Bristol studios.

Many of the songs existed for years as sketches, with the members exchanging recordings and adding ideas. By 2006, Portishead had prepared six or seven tracks. Barrow said most of the record was written during a 'spurt' at the end of 2007.Wanting to move away from the sound they had popularised, Portishead avoided using instruments they had used before; Barrow said 'the basic thing was to sound like ourselves, not to repeat ourselves'. The band members experimented with swapping roles; Barrow played bass, and singer played guitar on 'Threads'. Utley said Portishead were 'looking for limited frequency in instruments. Limited playing, too.

I pursued virtuosity for many years, learning scales and harmony, and being able to improvise through scales and chords, but technique isn't important for me any more.' For the first track, 'Silence', Barrow initially a record that had a spoken-word Portuguese introduction. Inspired by a theory about the number three, the band wrote a 'manifesto', had it translated into Portuguese, then recreated the sample with the new words to introduce the album. The band did not synchronise the guitar's effect with the song's tempo, creating harsh, asynchronous echoes. Portishead used analogue synthesisers including the.Portishead used several, including a, and, and a, an electronic keyboard that predates the synthesiser. For 'Threads', the band used the 'evil' detuned sound of the VCS 3 to create a foreboding horn-like sound, inspired by the English progressive rock band.

The Siel Orchestra's was not sophisticated enough to play the in ', so the band recorded the notes individually and edited them into an arpeggio pattern. The track also features a toy acoustic guitar Utley found in a junk shop.' Deep Water' was inspired by 's performance of ' in the 1979 film. Utley was initially unimpressed with Barrow's concept for the song, and said: 'I couldn't get with it at all, didn't like it. Geoff said he wanted to put these backing vocals on it, and I said I was having nothing to do with it. We didn't argue, I just conceded on that.

But now I really quite like it, and the funny thing is Geoff is moving the other way on it.' To create the rhythm in ', Portishead sampled the in an old. The synthesiser outro was inspired by the film soundtracks of. For ', the band added, and saxophone played by of.

According to Utley, 'we made Gregory be a player that day. We told him just to go fucking mad, to freak the fuck out. He had to move out of the room, so we couldn't see him, so he'd feel less inhibited.' Music Described as an, and record, Third departs from Portishead's sound, the genre they had popularised with their albums (1994) and (1997). It also contains no, a hallmark of their earlier albums.

Gareth Grundy of wrote that ' Third 's sole link with the past is Gibbons' voice. Everything else has been binned, the hip hop, the cinematic feel, the lot.' Instead, the album contains 'muscular' synthesisers, and abrupt endings, with 'propulsive' rhythms, cathedral organ, 'Moroccan '.

The AV Club wrote that singer Gibbons 'sounds more hollowed-out and harrowed than ever, a human nervous twitch on too much coffee and too little sleep'.The opening track, 'Silence', has a 'propulsive' drum loop and '-like guitar. 'We Carry On' has a 'claustrophobic' two-note electro riff; Rolling Stone likened the track to the work of the American psychedelic band. 'Deep Water' is a 'ukulele '. 'Machine Gun' is driven by a 'mechanical rhythm' that gives way to synthesisers which Drowned in Sound likened to the soundtracks of the 1980s films. 'Magic Doors' features 'huge' piano chords, 'tick-tocking', and 'corrupted' brass.

Release and promotion Third was released on 28 April 2008 on in the United Kingdom, 29 April in the United Statesand 30 April on in Japan. It entered the at #2 and the US at #7, becoming Portishead's highest US chart debut, selling 53,000 copies.On 8 and 9 December 2007, Portishead curated the festival in, England, and performed their first full sets in nearly 10 years, including tracks from Third.

On 21 January 2008, Portishead announced a European tour to support the album, with a headline spot at the on 26 April 2008, their only US date on the tour.On 21 April 2008, a week before its release, Third was made available as a free on, attracting 327,000 listeners in 24 hours. It was the first time Last.fm had made an album available before its release.

Third was the fifth-bestselling vinyl record of 2008, selling 12,300 copies. Reception Professional ratings Aggregate scoresSourceRating85/100Review scoresSourceRatingA−B+9/108.8/10At, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, Third has a metascore of 85 based on 38 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim.' In his review for, said Third was 'genuinely, startlingly original' and 'utterly riveting and endlessly absorbing'. 's Michaelangelo Matos wrote that 'nearly every track provides some little sonic goody midway through as a reward for continued attention after all these years. For once, it's worth the effort.' Reviewing Third for, Nick Southall wrote that 'several individual songs drift by almost unnoticed at first, contributing little more than a sense of unease to the collective memory of the album; an impression of oppression.

Those numbers that do stand out, though, drag the record close to magnificence.' John Payne of the wrote: 'Though several doses of this languid, tension-filled music get a tad draining, taken altogether it is a suitable sound for our troubling times, and there's an invigorating mysteriousness. Its blaring electronic peals are a wake-up call.' Reviewer found that the album 'is initially more a record to admire than to love. But after several listens, Third 's majesty unfurls.' Louis Pattison of wrote that Third was 'adventurous, sometimes dauntingly so – but seldom anything less than compelling' and declared it 'Portishead's best album yet.' ' Alan Ranta wrote that 'history will eventually see it rank on par with the rest of Portishead's legendary works'.

's Nate Patrin awarded the album the website's 'best new music' accolade, writing that it was 'a staggering transformation and a return to form that was never lost, an ideal adaptation by a group that many people didn't know they needed to hear again.' Magazine's Rob Sheffield found Third to be 'an unexpected yet totally impressive return', and Mike Bruno of said it was a 'less immediately accessible effort than Portishead's more groove-oriented earlier work, but it's no less gorgeous.' Gareth Grundy of gave the record three stars out of five and was disappointed that Portishead had moved away from their earlier sound, writing: ' Third will probably be more admired than listened to.

Dummy was a challenging record that just happened to find an audience. Third merely turns up the black until the darkness is overwhelming.' Third was named the best album of 2008 by PopMatters, second best by Pitchfork, ninth by the Guardian, and 25th by the NME. It was included in the 2014 edition of. In 2019, the Guardian named it the 45th best album of the 21st century. Track listing All tracks are written by, and except where noted.

Nylon Smile'3:164.' We Carry On'6:277.' Deep Water'1:318.' ' (Barrow / Gibbons)4:439.' ' (Barrow / Gibbons / John Baggott)3:3211.'

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