Portishead looks forward at Third followup
Following Portishead’s eponymous sophomore album, 11 years elapsed before fans were hit with this year’s acclaimed Third. Sure, it was no Smile, but 11 years is a pretty damn long time to wait for a new album. Luckily, the british trip-hoppers are not planning on waiting another decade to release their fourth album, producer and instrumentalist Geoff Barrow told BBC 6:
“When everyone’s had a bit of a break, I think we’re just going to plough onto it. We’ve sat down and we’ve talked about even like the direction and stuff like that … Everyone seems really positive about it.”
Combine this with the band’s comments earlier in the summer, and it certainly seems like we may have another Portishead album on our hands by 2009.
In addition to discussing the band’s current state of affairs, Barrow also provided some reasoning behind Third’s rather extensive delay: “It did take a long time because we just didn’t want to repeat ourselves again really, there’s no real point …We’d actually prefer to stop altogether if we were just going to roll out the old kinda sound really.” Now there’s a group that takes their music seriously. At least laziness wasn’t to blame.
Portishead is also looking forward to doing a more extensive tour, presumably to accompany the new effort.
Portishead was astounding at Coachella! I need them again!
I think I speak for a lot people. GIVE US A FULL US TOUR!
Aug 20th, 2009 at 11:30 am
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