Earlier this year the world welcomed back Portishead with their bizarro trip-hop hit Third. It had been 11 years since we had last heard from the band, but we won't have the same wait period next time. Guitarist Adrian Utley told BBC 6 Music that the band will return to the studio later this year to work on their fourth album.

That was fast, wasn't it? Utley credited the disparity in wait time to the band's ability to avoid burnout this time around:

"That’s partly why we're not touring enormously, because in 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us. None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that.

"We got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together. We’re all gonna be doing stuff. We've finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do."

While this news is quite exciting, it's also a bit disturbing. Some of us will need significantly longer than a year to recover from obsessing over all of Third's quirks. But far be it from us to quell Portishead's creative juices. [NME]