Music

Portishead set to start work on fourth album

by Ciaran Thompson

English Trip-hop band Portishead released their last album Third almost three years ago and in the meantime have been working on various other projects, however member Adrian Utley recently revealed in a interview with 6 Music that the band are ready to start working on a new record.

“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,” Utley said. “We’ve definitely thought about it and have had discussions about where we’re going and stuff, but 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.”

The trio will be playing a number of shows while making the new record, something Utley says has never happened before and may result in something different than their previous albums.

“We’ve never done that and I think it will feed into what we’re writing and how we feel about ourselves,” he said. “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.

“This is making it different, we’ll be playing live shows around it that might have a good influence on it, I’m hoping that it does, I’m quite excited about the whole thing.”