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Well, as things tend to go, someone has already seeded this. Oh, well.
Just to give you a further idea of the direction of Portishead's new album, "Third", I mogged about earlier, here's "We Carry On" (which was provisionally titled "Peaches" on the ATP set list.)
Talk about a departure.
Now, I just need to hold my breath until I manage to grab this on a juicy slab of vinyl.
P.S. Oh, btw, here's the full tracklist:
01 Silence ("Wicca" at the ATP show) 02 Hunter 03 Nylon Smile 04 The Rip ("Mystic" at the ATP show) 05 Plastic 06 We Carry On ("Peaches at the ATP show) 07 Deep Water 08 Machine Gun 09 Small 10 Magic Doors 11 Threads
Since we're at it, here's more from the Porcine Aeronautics and Hell Cooler department.
Portishead are readying their third album to date, imaginatively titled "Third", for release, slated for April 2008. They are also confirming tour dates for this coming season. The story has been all over Pitchfork recently, and the expectation levels are high.
Sure, a new Portishead release doesn't have anything like the "musical vaporware" status of the MBV comeback. And, much as I'm totally in love with "Dummy", I had always considered Portishead the kind of band that really carves out a niche for itself and remains in a musical world all of its own. The "more-of-the-same" feel of their 1997 album "Portishead" confirmed this feeling.
But the new songs premiered live set from the recent ATP's The Nightmare Before Christmas - Wicca, Hunter, Mystic, Machine Gun, and Peaches - present an unusual change of direction. They are not only darker in tone from what the band have us accustomed to, they're actually harder, up-front, and very upbeat: in the context of Portishead's production, they are the equivalent of plain old heads-down in-your-face rocking out.
I said I wasn't really looking forward to anything new or groundbreaking from Portishead anymore.
Well, now I am.
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Yes, Mike,
It is a little bit aggro. What I like the most is that, while they're making their sound more aggressive, they are not shedding any of their more poetic registers, at least not on what I hear on this live set (which has been on heavy rotation in my iPod for the past three days).
I'll try and post a couple more tracks, so people can get a better idea.
Well, I'm not normally one to be taken in by the zillion MBV "new album", "reunion", etc. rumours, and if there were a term to define the musical version of "vaporware", then MBV would be the eponym.
But here I am in Hell and it's freezing and I just saw a herd of pigs fly over.
It's official, or, at least, it's on MBV's official website here:
http://www.mybloodyvalentine.co.uk/
My Bloody Valentine (no info on the current lineup, aside from Mr. Shields, obviously) announce three reunion shows, as follows:
Friday 20th June – London – The Roundhouse Saturday 28th June – Manchester - Apollo Wednesday 2nd July – Glasgow - Barrowland
As I write this, the tickets are probably selling out at top speed, and if I spend another five minutes hanging out at MOG, probably even the cheap flights will go.
So, to all the MOGers who won't miss these shows, my deepest envy and jealousy.
So there.
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Oh my.... I'm a peaceful kind of person, so I wouldn't kill to be there. But I might be prepared to break some limbs. Any bets on how high the black market prices for tix will run?
I don't see myself capable of killing anyone either.
But I'd sell my granny to be there... if she hadn't passed away 5 years ago...
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Awesome! That all I can say! Ive been waiting for what seemed like ions! Finally some new tunes!
I find it a bit strange. But as you said in your last post, one might have to listen more often to it. And it reminds me partially of one of their old song, whose name I don't remember right now.
giwastar: Damn right, I think we all appreciate the news - and, above all, the new directions. And it's great - it's been on heavy rotation on my iPod for the past 48 hours.
Hermes: You got me here. No idea which previous track it might resemble. Still, Portishead are Portishead, no matter how far they go, it's still the same team.