unpiano: music

Man, I’m really disappointed by the new Portishead record Third. I keep listening to it again and again hoping I’ll change my mind, but to no avail. Granted, it gets points for not sounding dated. Somehow they managed to keep sounding like themselves but not sound like it was 1994. That’s no easy feat and I give them credit hands down. Unfortunately, it’s just a boring record. The production value is incredible as always, but there aren’t really any songs that grabbed me or sounds to be intrigued by (remember that kick drum on ‘It Could Be Sweet’?). I don’t know what else to say about this. Maybe they should have gone out on a high note with that live show in NYC. Anyways, I posted the best couple of tracks below.. and p.s. I think they should do the theme song for a Bond movie at some point. Just putting that out there.

Portishead - Threads
Portishead - The Rip
Portishead - Magic Doors

This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 6:43 pm by Jesse and is filed under Electronic, Downtempo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.