portishead - third

[sloth]

yeah i really dont get how everyone isnt whipping themselves into a spaz over this record. i guess all the dinner-party couples who bought dummy are too busy playing beethoven into their distended pregnant bellies now to bother about it.

i know what you mean about it being awkward, though. but yeah, its kind of charming knowing that they fucking LABOURED over this for a decade to make sure it was EXACTLY like that.

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by sloth

yeah i really dont get how everyone isnt whipping themselves into a spaz over this record.

I was really excited about it, because their second album is still one of my all-time favorites. This, however, this was NOT worth the 10+ year wait or however long it's been. I've heard the entire thing, and aside from maybe 2-3 songs, it comes off like a bad art school project. Can't say I'm a fan... but yeah, that box set packaging does look really nice at least.

[Rez]

beth gibbons as a "bad art school project"

you make me sad, rog.

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by Rez

beth gibbons as a "bad art school project"

you make me sad, rog.

Her voice is still great and fully capable of doing what they've done in the past, but musically, this album just doesn't cut it for me. I can appreciate them not trying to repeat the same style that they've done in the past, trying out new things 'n what not, but I don't like this new direction they've gone in and hope to hell they have a lot more stuff written after so many years of silence.