Friday, November 26th 2010
News: Portishead
Portishead Has Begun Working On Fourth Album
A couple of days ago, Portishead announced that they are curating (and performing at) the I’ll Be Your Mirror event, a “sister” to the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. Given that the band has been inactive for a while, many expected information on a new LP.
Today, guitarist Adrian Utley spoke to BBC 6 Music confirming that they are, in fact, working on their fourth album: “We’re just finishing up some projects we’ve each got and then we’ll look to start writing, a little bit separately and then together but it is pretty exciting. I think we’re just gearing up to it, staring at each other a bit and getting ready to go.”
Of course, given how long their previous album, Third, took to record (almost 3 years), one shouldn’t expect new music too soon. As Adrian said, “it’s kind of early days and I don’t think any of us want to really hex it by putting too many rules on it, which we often do. I think we’ll just start puking up stuff and see what it sounds like. We tend to disappear into a studio for a long long time and sometimes it can get pretty dark which in a way is a part of the creative process, it’s part of what makes us make the music we do, the kind of world we create around us.” About the possibility of new songs popping up on the band’s shows throughout 2011, he added: “There will possibly be a couple of extra tracks, certainly one extra track but because we’ll be in the middle of doing a new record, I doubt if we’ll have any new tracks, it’s not how we work.”
While we wait, check out the last track that Portishead released, the single Chase The Tear.