NEW YORK and LONDON, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Last.fm
announced today that Portishead's long-awaited new album, Third, will be
made exclusively available on the site, in its entirety, for free from
April 21, a week before its official release.

Third is the Bristol band's first studio album in 11 years, and each of
its 11 tracks will be made available for free, full-length, on-demand
streaming on Last.fm for 7 days leading up the official release on April
28.

Martin Stiksel, Last.fm co-founder, said: "We're enormously proud to be
able to host the premiere of an album that caps a trilogy of modern
classics from Portishead, one of the most innovative and influential bands
the U.K.'s ever produced. It means a lot to us, as Portishead was the first
artist we ever uploaded to Last.fm, and "Cowboys" from their second album
was the first track ever played when we went live in 2002. So it's hugely
appropriate that we kick off what aims to be an ongoing series of exclusive
album previews with the band that helped us kick off Last.fm."

The album will be available from Monday, April 21 at:
Last.fm/music/portishead/third.

This is the first time that Last.fm, which offers free access to the
largest licensed catalogue of music on the Web, has collaborated with an
individual artist to exclusively premier an album before its official
release. All of Portishead's previous albums are also available to stream
in full for free at Last.fm/music/portishead.

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