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Universal acclaim- based on 198 Ratings
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Positive: 166 out of 198
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Mixed: 18 out of 198
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Negative: 14 out of 198
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May 22, 2023Absolutely incredible, there's nothing else like it even 15 years later. Flows together like an album should and keeps being surprising.
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Aug 22, 2022The essence of Portishead still present on this album. Still relevant to this day and every time that you listen to it, you'll find new things. As we are used to from Portishead from the previous album. So good and different
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May 20, 2022methods are hardly frozen in time. And that evolution is what makes these elaborately layered tracks such a knotty, mesmerizing listen.
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Jul 13, 2021We've been waiting, and it didn't disappoint. Amazing body of work, obscure, mysterious, confusing in the most beautiful possible way!
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May 16, 2021A mi parecer, Third es el álbum más experimental e introspectivo de Portishead a la vez de que es el mejor que han sacado a la fecha, ojalá vuelvan a estrenar mĂşsica algĂşn dĂa.
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Dec 20, 2017
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Oct 25, 2017Great album. Dark, emotional and full of despair, this is Portishead's most experimental and arguably their strongest work to date. Particular favorites include 'Machine Gun', 'Small' and 'Plastic'.
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Oct 7, 2015Overwhelming, completely. Melancholic and out of control. Like broken long ago and pasted randomly with expired glue. No doubt It's a new yet old Portishead right there.
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Apr 24, 2015
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Oct 2, 2011This is not my favorite album (though it probably is my favorite portishead record), but for some reason I always want to hear it again, and I keep coming back to it. It is so jarring and abrasive at times, but it is also so original and forward thinking, that my initial reaction is always forgotten and I end up giving it another spin.
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Apr 28, 2011
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Mar 11, 2011
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Aug 30, 2010This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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RicardoCJul 25, 2009I can't really understand how Blender found this album difficult, the album is amazing. If you listen to it carefully and loud, its even better. One of my favourite.
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TimCMay 29, 2009Simply superb.
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JoseY.May 28, 2009
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JoeMay 24, 2009A nice album. I have never heard any of their earlier work but this is a very nice album.
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AniruddhaBApr 13, 2009The best thing by portishead... and one of my favourite albums of all time.
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ChrisC.Jan 18, 2009Portishead proves once again that they are true artists. They are still a haunting band of depth that goes against the grain without sounding pretentious.
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MattW.Dec 22, 2008Hands down, the best thing Portishead have ever done.
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PaulRNov 27, 2008Going from the reviews on here, it's obviously an album you either get or you don't. But if you do get it, the rewards are there to be reaped. This is easily their best album and all the more astonishing is the fact it's been released after a hiatus of 11 years. This and Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp are my two favourite albums of 2008.
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ClifNov 3, 2008
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DanielSOct 19, 2008
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ArtoS.Jul 29, 2008The most haunting albums of Portishead...brilliantly complicated and emotional...the combination alt-rock+electronic music has never sounded so fresh like "Third" does...
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BrianJul 28, 2008I just don't get it. I loved the first two Portishead albums but this.. this is just pointless noise. I really don't get it.
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leirisJul 28, 2008Excellent - as good as anything they've released.
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CraigKJul 25, 2008When so many bands and albums have covered this same sound and style so much better, Portishead's Third sounds like a mediocre imitation. I would rather listen to old albums than this one.
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JamesB.Jul 22, 2008Outstanding comeback album by Portishead! It's beautifully and darkly sublime. I'm not the least put off by the changes in their "trip hop" sound. And Beth's vocals are, of course, amazing and indelibly haunting. "Third" is easily one of the best albums in 2008!
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MargotC.Jul 20, 2008This is dreadful. i don't know how the band let this go out of the studio - didn't they listen to it and go red with embarrassment? I can't see what is innovative about out of tune caterwauling over 1980s German techno-style synths - appalling. Quality control was lost somewhere in the sycophancy of success.
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It's groove-deprived and difficult, and not in a particularly inventive way. [May 2008, p.78]
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Both ancient and futuristic, a mildewed signal from a more advanced culture that failed to survive the ice age, Third doesn’t make you pay attention to its desolate contours, but rather stare out of the window, creeping panic causing your mind to dart in a million dark directions at once.
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Long awaited comeback from Bristol trip-hop outfit proves worth the wait.