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| Artist: Portishead
Label: Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  159 reviews
Sales Rank: 366
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
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Showing reviews 141-145 of 159
 My favorite band ever dissapoints May 1, 2008
Elio D. Querze III (Boston, MA United States)
17 out of 31 found this review helpful
Apparently 3 times was not a charm for Portishead. I still listen to Dummy and Portishead every few months even 10 years later. I even popped in the Roseland VHS to watch for the umpteenth time less than a year ago. When I found our Portishead was finally going to release their 3rd album, I was elated! I had very high expectations. Unfortunately, so far, Im just not feeling it at all. Beths voice are still perfection, but the tracks just aren't up to par with their previous releases. Its not as smooth, its not as haunting(as humming), and its not as catchy! Overall, its a big big disappointment for me. Still its too early to call it my all time biggest musical disappointment ever! The two tracks that dont seem like total duds are silence and plastic. The latter sort of sounds like Beth when she was with Rustin Man. But even then none of the tracks on this album compare to mysteries from that album. Perhaps, there is nothing that can touch the genious of the first two albums. Im still waiting! Maybe fourth ;)
 Third: an exquisitly dark, sonic journey April 30, 2008
Rebel Center (Los Angeles, CA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
The album is more than worth the wait. It's incredible how this band has matured over the past decade. Portishead's "Third" achieves what few albums in the past few years have accomplished... we'll still be listening to it and it will still sound fresh and exciting in the year 2018.
Well worth the wait....and more April 30, 2008
C. Hague
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I might be in the minority here, but I think Third is tremendous and is better than Dummy or their s/t album. It could be that I've been listening to their first 2 1/2 released (Roseland included) for a decade and have been so anxious for something new that I welcomed this with overly opened arms. I doubt that though.
This album is a journey to the center of your soul, and it lets you get lost while doing it. I've been listening to Third for well over a month now, and with every spin, it gets better. I'm hard pressed to pick a track that I think could possibly define Third, but if I must do so, I say it has to be Small. Beth lures us in with her smooth, hypnotizing voice at first, and like the rest of the album....you can get lost in bliss.
Buy it. Buy it now and embrace Portishead for being so amazingly sharp after after abandoning us for nearly 10 years....welcome back, P
All Tension, No Release. April 30, 2008
Salanis (Sacramento, CA USA)
23 out of 40 found this review helpful
"It reminds me of what a headache feels like... and why we get them," is how a friend put it.
In past albums, Portishead has done an amazing job of pushing the envelope. This album went too far though.
The music was all tension and no release. It felt like it should be building to something, but never broke.
Portishead is one of those great bands that can get under your skin, make you a little bit uncomfortable, and then transport you someplace new. This album only did the first two, but completely missed the all important third step. It did not open up to anything. It was like they were so pleased with their ability to create a creepy narcotic vibe, that they never bothered to consider what use they were going to put it to.
It might as well have been a 45 minute sound check.
Mediocre April 30, 2008
T. Oneal (La Verne, CA, USA)
17 out of 31 found this review helpful
I thought it was mediocre, and like most, I have been awaiting this release for a decade. I pretty much had the other cds on repeat over the last 5 years, so maybe it is just my anticipation that killed it. I thought Beth's vocals were hollow but not in the great way that made other Portishead albums memorable. In the "dilluted and weakened" sense. I'm sorry but I have to be honest here, it seems like they went a little too deep into their imagination and pulled out melodies without much weight. Perhaps it will get better with additional listening, but other than a few choice tracks, I don't hold this album up to the standard of their previous 3.
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