Third

Third
Portishead studio album
Publication (s)	April 28, 2008
Label (s)	Island Records
Format (s)	CD , LP
Genre (s)	Trip-hop , electronic rock
Title (number)	11
running time	49:17
occupation	Beth Gibbons - vocals , keyboard , guitar Adrian Utley - guitar , bass , keyboard , ukulele , synthesizer Geoff Barrow - drums , keyboard , percussion , synthesizer , bass
production	Portishead
Studio (s)	Portishead Studio, Bristol
chronology Portishead (1997) Third -
Single releases March 18, 2008 Machine gun June 9, 2008 The Rip November 24, 2008 Magic Doors

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Third   DE 6th 05/12/2008 (11 weeks)   AT 4th 05/09/2008 (11 weeks)   CH 2 05/11/2008 (12 weeks)   UK 2 05/10/2008 (9 weeks)   US 7th 05/17/2008 (11 weeks)

Singles

Machine gun   UK 52 04/05/2008 (3 weeks)

Third is the third studio album by British trip-hop band Portishead . It was released eleven years after the trio's previous album Portishead .

Track list

With the exception of the marked exceptions, all songs were written by Beth Gibbons , Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow.

1. Silence - 4:58
2. Hunter - 3:56
3. Nylon Smile - 3:16
4. The Rip - 4:29
5. Plastic - 3:27
6. We Carry On - 6:27
7. Deep Water - 1:31
8. Machine Gun (Barrow / Gibbons) - 4:43
9. Small - 6:45
10. Magic Doors (Barrow / Gibbons / John Baggot) - 3:32
11. Threads - 5:45

Reviews

The album was highly acclaimed by the critics. Allmusic awarded four and a half out of five points. The album received 8.8 out of 10 points at Pitchfork Media and four out of five at laut.de. The Guardian even gave it the top grade and praised it with the words:

"[...] its muscular synthesisers, drum breaks and abrupt endings keeping the tension high. But after several lists, Third's majesty unfurls. "

- Jude Rogers

The album was voted album of the year 2008 by the critics of the German-language Rolling Stone and the magazine Visions , the Musikexpress put it at number 2 and in the magazine Spex it was at number 7.

Cover versions

The Rip was covered by Radiohead and published on Radiohead's official website. Radiohead were also otherwise very positive about Third and called it the band's best album to date.

Album cover

The entire artwork is in azure blue. On the cover, a P (for Portishead ) and a 3 ( Third English for the third [album of the band]) are shown - a little to the right of the center, overlapping, large and simple .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
2. ↑ Review at Allmusic (English, with audio samples)
3. ^ Review The Guardian
4. ↑ Rolling Stone Critics Charts 2008: 1st place ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ The 50 records of the year ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Editorial Charts 2008 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ The Rip on the radio head blog Dead Air Space ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ "Radiohead-Give-Portishead-Some-Loving" (gigwise.com)