No 4: Portishead - Third

 

It came after a near decade-long hiatus for the Bristolian trio, but nothing about Third suggested Portishead were emerging from the musical wilderness, nor that this was a band whose heyday was behind them.

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From the film noir-inspired orchestral swell of Silence to the eerie wonder of The Rip, the album bristled and shivered with Geoff Barrows's scrupulous production and Beth Gibbons's inimitable, haunting vocals. Furthermore, it laid waste to claims that Portishead's music - so ubiquitous in the late 1990s - had become the dinner party soundtrack of choice. Just you try playing Machine Gun while serving up duck confit.

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