Speaking of musical acts that I love unreservedly, I totally missed the news that trip-hop act Portishead is back:
According to CMJ:
Fresh off their announcement that they will be headlining this year’s Coachella, Bristol based genre-spanners Portishead, after months of speculation and a full 11 years since their last album, have finally announced the release of THIRD, their, appropriately, third LP, out April 14 via Island. The notice comes via a very succinct posting on their website, with, other than the name and release date, only mentioning that it has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes and 13 seconds long.
As I said previously:
There are very few musical performers that I revere so much that I would buy their next album sight unseen and music unheard. Portishead is one. In fact, I would buy their next album even if I heard it sucked.
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The Pop View » New Portishead tracks Says:
[...] As expressed previously, Portishead is one of my top bands. Certainly, of that whole electronica craze of the Nineties, they stood out from everybody else. Next week, they will be releasing their first studio album in 11 years. I have been listening to that album, titled Third, for the last few weeks and I am pleased to report that it’s not only up to their previous work, but it also represents a new shift in sound. [...]