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| Artist: Portishead
Label: Universal Music Group
Category: Music
List Price: CDN$ 14.99
Buy New: CDN$ 11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 223
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001114102
UPC: 602517664005
EAN: 0602517664005
ASIN: B0016HNOXQ
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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They're back, but like Indy 4, they should have left us to our memories August 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very hard album to get into, none of the instant gratification of the first 2 albums. Maybe a grower, time will tell. But if you're feeling a bit down, do not listen to this album !!!
 THE Third! May 22, 2008
It was worth waiting all this time. It took me a while to really appreciate it but now I'm absolutly into it.
Not Great...but not that bad May 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
For the amount of time it took to do this album I have to say I am dissapointed. It isn't a bad album but it really isn't that good either. Only a couple of standout tracks and the rest are just ok. I was happy when I heard Machine Gun as I thought Portishead was going to mix it up a little bit and try a slightly updated sound....I was wrong. They haven't really shown much growth to be honest.
Nothing they have done since Dummy has impressed me that much. Dummy was amazing
A really addictive and excellent THIRD album. May 4, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
In the mid-1990s, Bristol collective Portishead released two definitive albums - Dummy and its follow-up Portishead - then promptly went into hibernation, running scared of the era-defining trip-hop sound they had helped to shape.
For anyone that cares, Portishead are still made up of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, just as they were back in 1994 when "Dummy" hit the streets.
It has taken them 11 years to produce another album, entitled "Third", which has moved on from previous offerings - the smoky trip hop sound that was the backdrop to many a chilled late night is gone - replaced by an altogether heavier, starker, darker flavour.
Singer Beth Gibbons' distinctive, vulnerable bluesy, sometimes unsettling but beautiful vocals remain etched across the album's songs from hammering drums, tribal beats, and weird, sometimes crazy samples.
The vulnerability and strength of the lady's voice really cements the record. It means that it still sound exactly like you remember Portishead sounding like, even though the musical backing is decidedly modern and much more sinister than anything the band tried in the happy-do-lucky days of the mid-90s.
The openers "Silence" and "Hunter" sound like the stuff of some Edwardian ghost story, contrasting with the pseudo French chanteuse affectation of "The Rip", finding Beth Gibbons wafting an edgy ethereal vocal over plucked acoustic guitars. It could only be Portishead. Beth Gibbons ponders whether white horses will ever whisk her away, while a beautiful bass melody works up to a soft gallop in the background.
Stand out tracks include the distinctive "Magic Doors" with piano chords, to the powerful hammering beats of the single "Machine Gun". Other highlights include "The Rip" which begins as a folksy and delicate number before a crazy electro finish, while "Hunter" starts with a plaintive beauty and flashes of an earlier Portishead sound before it rises to bleaker distortion.
"We Carry On" is the key track on this excellent album, with a timpani beat driving a stirringly percussive track detonated with New Order guitars: the insistent beats prove the point perfectly. Strip Gibbons' rich vocals away from the track and you'd find a song that is as up to date as it's possible to be without it hurting.
"Third" has a real claustrophobic, eerie feel to it, which is quite addictive
If you're looking for uplifting sunny tunes then you've stumbled upon the wrong band and album.
But, if challenging, inventive music is your thing - then "Third" is definitely for you.
My favourite tracks: "We Carry On" and "Machine Gun"
Check out the gorgeous Beth Giboons' "Out Of Season".
 Third = Turd May 1, 2008
3 out of 26 found this review helpful
10 years in the making...
11 songs on the cd...
2 songs worth listening to...
$12.99 I'll never get back again...
The fact that a french guy might call it "Turd"... Priceless
(and I think I was generous with the "2 songs worth listening to")
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