New Portishead
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- ESKEMA0
I don's think that at all. It's different from the others but it is actually a natural evolution of their music. Dummy was really slow and melodic, Portishead has more rhythm and beats, and this new one is really more about the beats. If you really listen the new album without comparing it to the others 2 you'll see that it's a great album.
I saw them here in Lisbon last week and there is no words to describe that concert, and the new songs fit really good with the whole.
- dsb0
This is the best news I've heard in a while!
- BonSeff0
the more i listen the more i dig, def. have to be in the mood tho
- Ianbolton0
Im going to see them next week here in the UK. I know their live set will definitely give me a lot more appreciation for what they've done.
No matter how much i listen to the album though I just feel they are missing everything which i loved Portishead for in the first place. If they had realised the album under a different name then I wonder if people would still be sucking themselves off over it!
- listen to song 'Thread'. If that is not old school portishead i don't know what is..bliznutty
- big-papes0
This link should still work...
- 23kon0
GOOD?
You REALLY think it's good?!I think its the biggest let-down album EVER!
The songs are too long and drawn out and have no real memorable hooks like their previous work.
The album is WAYYY too over-produced. I prefer the simplicity of the likes of Dummy where it sounds like its a lass singing and a dude with some decks and a dude with a sampler.
- Ianbolton0
23 Kon,
Maybe we're missing something, but I also feel let down by a band who i grew up with and loved for their sheer unpretentious, frighteningly beautiful and freakishly effortless soul searching music. "The spell is now broken" quoted one magazine.I really do hope they make another album and show me I'm wrong, and Portishead are not lost.
- ninjasavant0
The version I've heard didn't sound finished and at this point I'd have to agree with 23kon. It disappointed me so much I had to go back and listen to their first albums to make sure I wasn't wrong all along. But I'm hoping what is out there are just studio tapes and the final results will actually blow our minds.
With that anticipation in mind I did go ahead and order this: http://www.portisheadshop.co.uk/…
- Thats a good price for all that. Shame the album is a bit poo.ian
- ESKEMA0
nop. It's the real one. I saw them live last week.
They are musicians, so they make music they feel good with.
I wouldn't like to do the same music over and over sounding the same and I don't expect no one to like it either. Dummy was released 15 years ago!! do you expect them to be the same after 15 years? If you want to hear Dummy then listen to it. I still do. but I'm glad they make new aproaches to their music. It shows that they still have more to offer and more to explore. stagnation or accomodation to only one album is not productive and ends up being just that. boring for the public and boring in the creative perspective of a musician.
I don't want to make anyone to like this album, everyone has it's personal taste but you can't blame them for making THEIR music the way they like.
And this one is their last album as I heard somewhere.- I can't believe the bootleg is the final album. The first song ends abruptly. The mix is muddy for most of the songs too.ninjasavant
- it ended abruptly live tooESKEMA
- Ianbolton0
just because they are doing something new doesn't mean it's great.
If they did a happy hardcore album i would have been more impressed by the irony.
- BonSeff0
so you think they owe you something you were expecting? thats pretty lame
- Ianbolton0
Admit it, they could have done better than this. There are so many amazing bands around at the moment I couldn't give a shit if this is rubbish, but i can't see why everyone's banging on about it being so amazing.
All i can see is an iconic band name and loads of money.
- 23kon0
Eskema, i didnt say i wanted the album to sound the same as Dummy.
I wanted the new Portishead album to be able to blow me away as much as their Debut did with new and exciting sounds i had never heard before. This album fails to do this. It's NOT unique or original in my opinion.One band that is good at this is Radiohead, creating albums that all constantly sound different, make you sit back and go wow!
The chili peppers used to be good at doing this too - creating albums that were soo different yet equally amazing (that is until they have now found a "sound that the kids buy" so have remained the same their past 3 albums! GRR!)Really gutted that I anticipated this album to be something of huge greatness and it turned out not to be.
- ian0
The new REM album sounds like their old stuff and thats shite too, so not sure the argument is right. I agree with 23kon (except I can't stand the chili peppers, but thats another issue...).
- I just bought that album last night. Automatic for the People and Monster are tough to match so I'm giving it a listen today.ninjasavant
- ninjasavant0
Exactly 23. It happens to a lot of bands, Smashing Pumpkins is another example. I try to take the history out of any new album that comes out meaning I try to think like I'm 15 again and hearing it for the first time, whats my reaction? Given the musical landscape I'd take Zero 7's last album over Third any day. Not to say that Third doesn't have its moments, I just don't think it could stand on its own without the Portishead name on it.
However, since I did shell out the money for the album I am going to give it a fair test over time. There's lots of albums I dismissed at first and then grew on me to the point of obsession, Digitalism was one of those albums.
- i_monk0
I like what I've heard so far; I'm also ecstatic that they didn't follow Lamb and the rest down the female-empowerment-love-babies-e... chute.
Methinks if [P] had come out with a "unique and original" follow-up certain people here would be complaining that it doesn't sound like Portishead anymore.
- horton0
do all the copies in circulation still have that abrupt ending to to the first track... ? was that really intentional?
- Said the same thing above, apparently it was intentional as they seem to have done it live.ninjasavant
- meh. thanks for info. i'm definitely in the disappointed camp on this one.horton
- ESKEMA0
23, I understand what you say, and me too thinks that this album is not even close to the others but I find it a normal evolution of their music. it didn't had the wow effect of blowing me away but it's a really great album to listen to and the more you listen to it the more you will like it.
What I was criticizing was the fact that people blaim bands for new release albums because they have such high expectations towards them that it's nearly impossible to satisfy ( except Radiohead because they are not humans )
- Ianbolton0
Maybe it is the fact Radiohead have constantly kept that humanistic feel that explains why all their albums are pretty great. Kid A and Amnesiac could maybe have been squeezed onto one album - but i think they only spread it out to fulfill there EMI album quota.
It feels like Portishead were forced into making this for all the wrong reasons and has lost that organic feeling you need from an amazing album.
It's not rubbish, but it certainly isn't a reinvention like Radiohead has proven is possible, or anything near as wonderful as their older stuff. So what is it?