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Artist: Portishead
Label: Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $8.46
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Avg. Customer Rating:  73 reviews
Sales Rank: 7
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 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New - Factory Sealed - Shipped from Florida via USPS First class mail. We ONLY sell what we have in stock. NO back orders here.Import Edition
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| Tracks:
| • | Silence | | • | Hunter | | • | Nylon Smile | | • | The Rip | | • | Plastic | | • | We Carry On | | • | Deep Water | | • | Machine Gun | | • | Small | | • | Magic Doors | | • | Threads |
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 Portishead Goes Organic May 14, 2008
Overall Impression
The CD arrived yesterday in the mail, and it did not disappoint me. I liked it a lot from the get go, and I think it will become a permanent fixture in my car's CD player for a long time.
How does it sound?
ORGANIC is the best word that I can use to describe this Portishead release differentiating it from the other 2 Portishead albums. It is eerie, haunting, dark, but so are the other albums. In this release, the vocals are mixed harder than the drum&bass tracks. Also, most of the drums and drum samples sound less electronic and less like loops than before. The bass, in turn, tends to sound like a vintage 70's synth.
What can you compare it to?
Imagine if the James Bond movies from the 60's and 70's had been directed by David Lynch. The songs in Third would be great themes for the films. If you are familiar with Artie Shaw's music, imagine him producing a Portishead CD and you will hear Third.
 hell good May 14, 2008
this is the best portishead album ever. creepy and progressive. you are probably stupid if you dont like it.
 Interesting May 14, 2008
There are 2 tracks I really like on their new work.
The song "Hunter" has the most going on musically, very smooth music.
The "Rip" is also good because it builds on some good lyrics and continues to build with actual beats and rhythm.
If you are expecting this to be anything like the old Portishead it's not.
I would have to label it more experimental at this point.
There are many songs like, "Machine Gun" that takes the same 7 second sample and loops it for 4 minutes while the singer tries to put a melody over it. There are many songs just like this, they don't really build towards anything or have a structure.
Is the song "Magic Doors" an accidental rip off of the Bjork song "I have seen it all" because it carries the same exact melody as her chorus. You can hear it in the samples on Amazon if you search for it.
Even after repeat listening sessions, the album as a whole is interesting and makes me hope they put out more work.
This is something only the diehard Portishead fans will love. The ones who don't care if they played one note on a keyboard for 6 minutes while the singer did her thing.
There are a few songs that are worth individual download, but I can't recommend this album beyond that.
This is evolution. May 13, 2008
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I'm not really good at reviews, so I'll keep this short:
Like most of the reviewers on this website, I loved Dummy and the other Portishead albums. Like some of the reviewers, I concur that this is not like old Portishead at all; this is a new direction, and one that, like Dummy was in its time, representative of the zeitgeist of this time.
The music is cold, alienating, and very complex. The harsher quality to the sound makes everything feel that much more deliberate; you can hear the synth, you can tell that the beats and bass were constructed artificially from ground up because it is that raw and unpolished. It brings something new to the world of music; it isn't a simple rehash of old tried-and-true gimmicks, and it feels extremely well thought out.
But at the end of the day it isn't for everyone. I'd suggest looking for samples/clips of these tracks before deciding to plonk down the cash for it.
 You had me at "Dummy"... and then fell-the-funk-off! May 13, 2008
I'm not going to use a bunch of pretty words to compel you to accept my review as "gospel" because I'm smart or something. I'm gonna just make this simple and plain.
I bought into Portishead when the Trip-Hop movement was in full swing... back when it was pretty much Portishead and Massive Attack on top of the WORLD.
If this album would have been released instead of Dummy, back in 1994, they would have vanished. But instead they released something dark and mysterious... something miserable, strange and hip. The samples, the cuts & scratches, the theremin, the breaks. It used to be music for the A.D.D. inflicted. Now, it's so boring I can't pay attention for more than 20 seconds for it to grow on me. I've moved on to more stimulating sounds now like Architecture In Helsinki and Vampire Weekend now.
Trip-hop died such a quick and painless death, kids don't even recognize it as a genre anymore.
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