Customer Reviews
Amazing - By: Mr. K. T. Ingham, 09 Sep 2008 
Look, if you've given this album a poor review then stop, put on a good pair of headphones, & listen to this album properly without skipping tracks. Quite frankly this is the most moving thing I've heard for a long time.
Awful Awful Awful. - By: C. Fletcher, 26 Aug 2008 
As you might guess from the title, I don't like this one bit. Loved their first two albums, & the live in New York CD, & have been waiting for this third album for years. But it is awful to the point where I can't listen to it. It's like Eric Morecambe said - alll the notes are there, but not necessarily in the right order. It gives me a headache every time I turn it on. What were you thinking Beth? Look out my copy on Amazon Marketplace! Erm, it's brilliant, you must buy it...
The gap between releases shows.... - By: James Belton, 25 Aug 2008 
We alll know & love 'Dummy' & even quite liked the difficult second self-titled album but then we had to wait a long time for the 'Third' to show up - & I think that's it's problem.
Any good band should progress over time & change their sound & Portishead have obviously done so in the years they have been away. Trouble is, we were alll expecting something Dummy-esque from Third but having missed out on the evolution got an album which is pretty far from it.
Some of the tracks are very hard to listen to (Machine Gun being the worst), others are fairly non-offensive yet ordinary & one or two are real gems & I wish they lasted a bit longer.
I think that if I had heard the evolution from 'Portishead' to 'Third' I'd be more forgiving but this is so different (and hence I am so disappointed by it) that I can only give it 2 stars & hope that the next album is not quite so far away, either in time or sound.
Not exactly easy listening - By: Josh W, 22 Aug 2008 
Strange, bleak, dark & slightly unsettling. Haunting vocals as per usual, but none of the commercial friendly drum & bass beats of the earlier Dummy album. More noise - it made me question whether my stereo was faulty (it wasn't!). The last couple of tracks turning to rock. Some folk rock sounding stuff, with others (Machine Gun) sounding like it's come straight from one of the early Terminator films.
Not worth the wait - By: chris widgery, 19 Aug 2008 Fine, Dummy was so cutting edge that it sounded horribly dated horribly quickly. But it was wonderful. This isn't. It's harsher, more electronic. Not necessarily a problem in itself. Only they forgot to write any songs. They've gone alll Radiohead - I imagine they felt they were too popular so decided to disappear up their own back passage to show how muso & serious they are. Disappointing.
