Album Facts
Portishead - Third Vinyl LP
Continuation of haunting, chilled trip-hop from the Bristol natives
Price $32.00
Format 2xLP
Label Island
Barcode/UPC 602517641044
Color Black
Year 2008
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
Album Facts
Continuation of haunting, chilled trip-hop from the Bristol natives
Price $32.00
Format 2xLP
Label Island
Barcode/UPC 602517641044
Color Black
Date 2008
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
Eleven years following their self-titled second album, Portishead’s Third is an inventive, challenging song cycle that never settles for easy listening. The time off was no vacation. Principal producer and writer Geoff Barrow was decidedly unhappy over the group’s comfort zone, disturbed that the ensemble’s experimental ways were so easily co-opted by others and fitted as a lifestyle soundtrack for a sophisticated, affluent class. With Third, the challenge was on to reinvent the group’s spooky trip-hop, film-noir magic as something far more extreme. “Magic Doors” and “Plastic” both clock in at the conventional three-and-a-half minute mark, yet in their compact structures the tunes cut-up and break down in unexpected jolts with beats slowed to crawls and Beth Gibbons’ eerie vocals tortured into free-fall. The minute and a half of “Deep Water” is a shockingly tame ukulele ballad with a barbershop quartet mocking Gibbons’ depressive observations, but elsewhere the emphasis is pure tension. The disruptive grooves of “Silence” set the ominous path. Songs shut down abruptly, or clang on with battered electronics (“Machine Gun”). Intense.
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Is this vinyl record an official pressing?
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This LP is shipped in vinyl-safe packaging to ensure it arrives in pristine condition.
This LP is shipped in vinyl-safe packaging to ensure it arrives in pristine condition.
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While this album may appear elsewhere, purchasing through GOOD TASTE Records ensures verified condition, official color variant, and direct seller accountability.
In-stock inventory is also available in our Boston retail store.
