The attractive mixture of electronica, krautrock, post punk and trip hop anchored by dark, lethal lyrics that wander in a gratifying masterwork makes Portishead's third album "Third" the best album of 2008. After a decade in the wilds, except from a few scattered contributions and the solo album of Beth Gibbons, the trip hop veterans recall elements of their own sound of the 90s anticipating the mystique surrounding their prolonged absence and offering one of the best albums in the history of music.
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