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Portishead Return With Their First Album in a Decade
Portishead return in style this spring with Third, their first album in over a decade.
Island Records UK president Nick Gatfield is overseeing the project and he enthuses about the new album.
He says: "They aimed to create a new template for the Portishead sound: it’s not a retread of Dummy. I think they’ve achieved this. While some of the original elements are there, such as Beth’s voice, they have drawn up new parameters.
The band have an exhaustive attention to detail – real quality control in the structure of songs, the sounds they use. The sound ranges from the more soulful to quite hard. But it is the Portishead signature sound: it’s what makes them special. This is why they have been cited by artists from rock to hip hop."
The album was recorded in the band’s Bristol studio and Gatfield explains: "The band have probably only been working in earnest on this album for the last couple of years, although they’ve done side projects, but they regrouped to tackle the album head on."
"The album is not a singles album, it’s not that sort of work, and we will be promoting it in other ways. We’ve had directors coming up to us saying they’d love to film the band so we’re commissioning four or five short films which we’ll release over a six to nine month period and then bundle as a DVD."
"We’re creating quite a visual element which, again, will sustain the life of the record for six to nine months. We are filming a special event in Portishead, at an old school hall there. It will be Portishead in Portishead… There will be a pre-launch TV show and we will use elements for the online promotion."
"There will be a live global media launch in Berlin around March 16-17. They are very popular internationally: for example Germany, Japan, France and the US are all key markets. We will broadcast the media launch."
"They’ve recently done some so-called low key live dates and got mobbed at the Bristol Academy - it was heaving – and they hosted the All Tomorrow’s festival at Butlins in Minehead in December."
Third will be released internationally by Island Records UK on April 28. It wil appear April 29 in the US on Mercury/Island.
Portishead will kick off their UK and European tour in Oporto on March 26, ending at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona in May. They will also appear at famed US music festival, Coachella, on April 26.
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