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2008 studio anthology by Portishead

Third
A dark turquoise background with "P" and "3" overlaid on top of one another in lighter white.
Studio album by

Portishead
Released 28 April 2008 (2008-04-28)
Recorded 2005–2008
Genre
  • Experimental rock
  • electronica
  • psychedelic stone
Length 49:17
Label
  • Isle
  • Mercury
Producer Portishead
Portishead chronology
Roseland NYC Live
(1998) 		Third
(2008)
Singles from Third
  1. "Motorcar Gun"
    Released: 24 March 2008
  2. "The Rip"
    Released: 9 June 2008
  3. "Magic Doors"
    Released: 24 November 2008

Third is the third studio album by English language electronic music ring Portishead. Information technology was released on 28 April 2008 in the United kingdom by Island Records and a 24-hour interval later in the U.s. past Mercury Records. Portishead's showtime studio anthology in eleven years, 3rd moved away from the trip hop style they had popularised, incorporating influences such as krautrock, surf rock, doo wop and the film soundtracks of John Carpenter.

Afterward Portishead released their self-titled 2d album in 1997, ring fellow member Geoff Barrow put Portishead on hiatus and moved to Australia. He became uninterested in music, and efforts to develop new songs with guitarist and keyboardist Adrian Utley failed. They were inspired to create again later on producing with the band the Coral, and restarted work with vocalist Beth Gibbons in Bristol, England.

Third entered the meridian ten of several countries' music charts and was certified gold in the UK.[one] It was named ane of the best albums of 2008 by several publications; in 2013, the NME ranked information technology number 330 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Fourth dimension.[2]

Background [edit]

In 1998, post-obit iii years of tours and a divorce, drummer and songwriter Geoff Barrow put Portishead on hiatus and went to Commonwealth of australia. He told Drowned in Sound: "I couldn't observe anything I liked musically in anybody, in anything."[3] Guitarist and keyboardist Adrian Utley joined him to work on new material, but they were not satisfied with the results.[iii]

In 2003, Barrow wrote "Magic Doors", which he described as "an opening ... and so we ended up going dorsum and forth, hating everything and then liking everything, and nosotros had to decide whether to carry on."[3] He and Utley co-produced the 2005 Coral album The Invisible Invasion. The process proved inspiring; according to Barrow, "Hither's me and Ade, these older dudes, too scared to fifty-fifty play a annotation because we were scared we'd hate it, and in that location's them, just beingness able to write a soundtrack in an afternoon."[3]

Recording [edit]

Portishead self-produced 3rd in their Bristol studios. Many of the songs existed for years as sketches, with the members exchanging recordings and calculation ideas.[4] By 2006, Portishead had prepared 6 or vii tracks. Barrow said nigh of the tape was written during a "spurt" at the terminate of 2007.[3]

Wanting to move abroad from the trip hop sound they had popularised, Portishead avoided using instruments they had used before; Barrow said "the bones thing was to sound similar ourselves, not to repeat ourselves".[5] The band members experimented with swapping roles; Barrow played bass, and vocalizer Beth Gibbons 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."[4]

For the get-go track, "Silence", Barrow initially sampled a record that had a spoken-word Portuguese introduction. Inspired by a Wiccan theory about the number three, Portishead wrote a "manifesto", had information technology translated into Portuguese, then recreated the sample with the new words to innovate the album. They did not synchronise the guitar'southward delay effect with the tempo, creating harsh, asynchronous echoes.[iv]

Portishead used analogue synthesisers including the ARP 2600.

Portishead used several analogue synthesisers, including a Minimoog,[half dozen] Korg MS-20, ARP 2600, Siel Orchestra and VCS 3,[4] and a clavioline, an electronic keyboard that predates the synthesiser. For "Threads", the band used the "evil" detuned sound of the VCS three to create a foreboding horn-like sound, inspired by the English progressive rock ring Hawkwind.[4] The Siel Orchestra's sequencer was not sophisticated enough to play the arpeggios in "The Rip", then the band recorded the notes individually and edited them into an arpeggio pattern. The track likewise features a toy acoustic guitar Utley found in a junk shop.[4]

"Deep Water" was inspired by Steve Martin's performance of "Tonight Y'all Belong to Me" in the 1979 film The Jerk. [4] Utley was initially unimpressed with Barrow'south 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 fashion on it."[4]

To create the rhythm in "Motorcar Gun", Portishead sampled the drum machine in an old electronic organ. The synthesiser outro was inspired by the film soundtracks of John Carpenter.[iv] For "Magic Doors", the ring added hurdy-gurdy, and saxophone played by Will Gregory of Goldfrapp. According to Utley, "We fabricated [Gregory] be a complimentary jazz player that twenty-four hour period ... 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 run across him, and then he'd feel less inhibited."[4]

Music [edit]

Described every bit an electronica,[7] experimental rock[8] and psychedelic rock tape,[9] Third departs from Portishead'south trip hop sound, the genre they had popularised with their albums Dummy (1994) and Portishead (1997).[10] [11] It likewise contains no turntable scratching, a hallmark of their before albums.[10] Gareth Grundy of Q wrote that "Third 's sole link with the past is Gibbons' voice ... Everything else has been binned, the hip hop, the cinematic experience, the lot."[12] Instead, the album contains "muscular" synthesisers, pulsate breaks and abrupt endings, with "propulsive" krautrock rhythms,[13] break beats, cathedral organ, "Moroccan drones" and surf stone.[14] The AV Club wrote that vocaliser Gibbons "sounds more hollowed-out and harrowed than ever, a human nervous twitch on also much coffee and besides little slumber".[ten]

The opening track, "Silence", has a "propulsive" pulsate loop and "Morse code"-similar guitar.[15] "We Bear On" has a "claustrophobic" two-note electro riff; Rolling Stone likened it to the piece of work of the American psychedelic ring Argent Apples.[xiv] "Deep H2o" is a "ukulele doo-wop".[13] "Machine Gun" is driven past a "mechanical" rhythm that gives way to synthesisers which Drowned in Audio likened to the soundtracks of the 1980s films The Terminator and Blade Runner.[15] "Magic Doors" features "huge" piano chords, "tick-tocking" cowbell, and "corrupted" brass.[15]

Release and promotion [edit]

Tertiary was released on 28 April 2008 on Island Records in the Britain,[sixteen] 29 April Mercury Records in the United States,[ citation needed ] and 30 April on Universal Music Japan in Japan.[ commendation needed ] It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 2[17] and the United states of america Billboard 200 at number 7, condign Portishead's highest US chart debut, selling 53,000 copies.[18]

On eight and 9 December 2007, Portishead curated the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England, and performed their offset full sets in nearly 10 years, including tracks from Third.[xix] On 21 January 2008, Portishead announced a European tour to support the anthology,[20] with a headline spot at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on 26 April 2008,[21] their only US appointment on the tour.

On 21 Apr 2008, a week before its release, Third was fabricated available as a gratuitous stream on Last.fm, alluring 327,000 listeners in 24 hours. It was the first fourth dimension Last.fm made an album available earlier its release.[22] Tertiary was the fifth-bestselling vinyl record of 2008, selling 12,300 copies.[23]

Reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 85/100[24]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [8]
The A.V. Order A−[10]
Entertainment Weekly B+[11]
The Guardian [13]
Los Angeles Times [25]
NME 9/10[26]
Pitchfork viii.viii/10[9]
Rolling Stone [14]
Spin [27]
The Times [28]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted boilerplate score out of 100 to reviews and ratings from mainstream critics, Tertiary has a metascore of 85 based on 38 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[24]

In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said Tertiary was "genuinely, startlingly original" and "utterly riveting and endlessly arresting".[8] The A.V. Club 's Michaelangelo Matos wrote that "near every track provides some little sonic goody midway through as a reward for continued attention afterward all these years. For once, it's worth the effort."[ten] Reviewing Third for Drowned in Sound, Nick Southall wrote that "several individual songs drift by about unnoticed at starting time, contributing lilliputian more than a sense of unease to the collective retentiveness of the album; an impression of oppression. Those numbers that do stand out, though, elevate the tape close to magnificence."[xv] John Payne of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "Though several doses of this languid, tension-filled music get a tad draining, taken altogether information technology is a suitable sound for our troubling times, and there's an invigorating mysteriousness. Its blaring electronic peals are a wake-upwards call."[25] Guardian reviewer Jude Rogers establish that the album "is initially more a record to admire than to love ... Only later on several listens, Third 'southward majesty unfurls."[13]

Louis Pattison of NME wrote that 3rd was "audacious, sometimes dauntingly so – but seldom anything less than compelling" and said it was Portishead'due south best anthology.[26] PopMatters' Alan Ranta wrote that it would eventually be seen on par with Portishead'southward earlier piece of work.[29] Pitchfork 's Nate Patrin named Third the week's "best new music", writing that it was "a staggering transformation and a return to form that was never lost, an ideal adaptation by a grouping that many people didn't know they needed to hear again".[nine] In Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield wrote that Third was "an unexpected yet totally impressive render".[fourteen] Mike Bruno of Entertainment Weekly said it was less accessible than Portishead's before music, only "no less gorgeous".[11] Gareth Grundy of Q gave it three out of five and was disappointed that Portishead had moved away from their earlier sound, writing: "Third will probably exist more admired than listened to ... Dummy was a challenging record that just happened to find an audience. Tertiary just turns up the black until the darkness is overwhelming."[12]

Third was named the best anthology of 2008 by PopMatters,[30] second best by Pitchfork,[31] 9th by the Guardian,[32] and 25th by the NME. [33] Information technology was included in the 2014 edition of 1001 Albums Yous Must Hear Before Y'all Die.[34] In 2019, the Guardian named it the 45th best anthology of the 21st century.[35] In December 2008, American webzine Somewhere Cold ranked Tertiary No. seven on their 2008 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame.[36] In 2013, the NME named it number 330 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Fourth dimension.[37]

Track listing [edit]

All tracks are written past Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley except where noted.

Third runway listing
No. Championship Writer(s) Length
1. "Silence" four:58
2. "Hunter" iii:57
3. "Nylon Smile" 3:16
iv. "The Rip" 4:29
5. "Plastic" iii:27
6. "We Carry On" vi:27
7. "Deep Water" 1:31
8. "Machine Gun"
  • Barrow
  • Gibbons
 four:43
9. "Small" 6:45
10. "Magic Doors"
  • Barrow
  • Gibbons
  • John Baggott
 3:32
11. "Threads" five:45

Personnel [edit]

  • Beth Gibbons – vocals, keyboards, electric guitar on "Threads"
  • Geoff Barrow – drums, keyboards, synthesizer, bass guitar, percussion, programming
  • Adrian Utley – electrical guitar, audio-visual guitar, bass guitar, ukulele, keyboards, synthesizer, programming
  • Charlotte Nicholls – cello on "Silence" and "Threads"
  • Claudio Campos – spoken intro on "Silence"
  • Wendy Bertram – bassoon on "The Rip"
  • Squad Brick – clarinet on "Plastic," vocals on "Deep Water"
  • David Poore & Ben Salisbury ("the Somerfield Workers Choir") – vocals on "Deep Water"
  • Will Gregory – saxophone on "Magic Doors" and "Threads"
  • John Baggott – rhodes piano on "Magic Doors"
  • Stu Barker – hurdy-gurdy on "Magic Doors"
  • Clive Deamer – drums on "Threads"
  • Jim Barr – bass guitar on "Threads"

Production [edit]

  • Producer – Portishead
  • Recording engineers – Adrian Utley, Stuart Matthews, Rik Dowding, John Pickford
  • Mix engineers – Geoff Barrow, Craig Silvey
  • Fine art design – Marc Bessant
  • Photography – Larry Bennett

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Release history [edit]

Third has been released in various formats.[viii] [29]

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External links [edit]

  • Portishead – Rail by Rail on YouTube NME interview with Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley discussing the tracks on the album.

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