Portishead - Third
List Price:
Our Price: $12.99
You Save: $0.99 (7%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $5.84 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: PortisheadEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Music Label: Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Silence
- Hunter
- Nylon Smile
- The Rip
- Plastic
- We Carry On
- Deep Water
- Machine Gun
- Small
- Magic Doors
- Threads
Music reviews of Third
Music Review: Portishead, Third
Rating: 3 Stars
I'm a huge Portishead fan. I love how unique and slightly strange the music is. This CD is more than slightly strange though. Maybe I just need to listen to it moreso it will grow on me, but this CD somehow has a different feel than the other two.
Description of Third
Portishead's Third has been a long time coming, the result of a lengthy creative torpor following 1997's dark, distinctly underrated album Portishead. Importantly, though, they've shaken it. While the core trio of Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley remains, this is quite a different band to Portishead's 90s incarnation: gone is the slo-mo turntable scratching and smoky jazz feel, replaced by heavy, brooding rhythms, vintage-sounding electronics, and spindly guitar. Still present, though, is that sense of emotional fracture and deep gloom. "Silence" opens with a dense drum loop which suddenly falls away to reveal Gibbons' voice, cold but magnificent: "Wounded and afraid, inside my head/Falling through changes". "Nylon Smile", meanwhile, is a fine example of Third's occasional folksy edge, an acoustic song reminiscent of Leonard Cohen that, around its midpoint, lifts off on a propulsive electronic rhythm, Gibbons holding one clear, hard note as synthesisers bubble beneath. At times, it's a harsh and foreboding listen: the electronic drums of "Machine Gun" might put off the listener hoping for smooth dinner party fare. But Third is a brave and forward-thinking return, and one great enough to justify its lengthy gestation. --Louis PattisonElectronica CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Electronica CDs
Enigma - Seven Lives Many FacesRelease date: 2008-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $6.10
Price in other shops:
Massive Attack - MezzanineRelease date: 1998-05-12; Published: 1998; Music CD
Best price: $6.20
Price in other shops:
Thievery Corporation - Radio RetaliationRelease date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $9.25
Price in other shops:
Portishead - DummyRelease date: 1994-10-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.23
Price in other shops:
Tosca - No Hassle (Amazon US Exclusive Version w/ Bonus DVD)Release date: 2009-04-28; Music CD
Best price: $13.99
Price in other shops:
Fischerspooner - EntertainmentRelease date: 2009-05-05; Music CD
Best price: $8.45
Price in other shops:
Portishead - ThirdRelease date: 2008-04-29; Music CD
Best price: $6.44
Price in other shops:
VNV Nation - Reformation 01Release date: 2009-05-12; Music CD
Best price: $21.99
Price in other shops:
Fever Ray - Fever RayRelease date: 2009-03-24; Music CD
Best price: $9.98
Price in other shops:
R?yksopp - JuniorRelease date: 2009-03-23; Music CD
Best price: $9.26
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd CoupleRelease date: 2008-03-21; Music CD
Best price: $4.34
Price in other shops:
Portishead - PortisheadRelease date: 1997-09-30; Music CD
Best price: $5.19
Price in other shops:
Santigold - SantigoldRelease date: 2008-04-29; Music CD
Best price: $9.49
Price in other shops:
Consolers Of The LonelyRelease date: 2008-03-25; Music CD
Best price: $9.20
Price in other shops:
Portishead - DummyRelease date: 1994-10-17; Music CD
Best price: $6.01
Price in other shops:
Coldplay - Viva La VidaRelease date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $7.36
Price in other shops:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet FoxesRelease date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops:
Beck - Modern GuiltRelease date: 2008-07-08; Music CD
Best price: $7.10
Price in other shops:
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow StairsRelease date: 2008-05-13; Published: 2008; Music CD
Best price: $9.46
Price in other shops:
Radiohead - In RainbowsRelease date: 2008-01-01; Music CD
Best price: $4.40
Price in other shops: