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Portishead To Work On New Album In 2012

3:41 p.m. · September 20, 2011 · by Andrew Martin

This past January, Portishead fans will likely remember the news that the seminal electronic outfit would not be releasing a new album this year. While that sucked and all, it's good to know that, at least, they're planning on working on a follow-up to 2008's Third in early 2012. Band leader Geoff Barrow revealed the plans in an interview with Rolling Stone amidst discussion of whether or not they'd release a 20th anniversary edition of Dummy. Spoiler alert: it ain't happenin'. As for the new album, well, it's not clear when it will come together, but we're staying optimistic.

You can read the portion of the interview on the new album below. Read the full article at Rolling Stone.

 

Have you already started the new album?

No, we haven't. I'm going to start in January, I don't know when Beth's gonna start or when Adrian [Utley] is gonna start, but I'm gonna get my head together for January basically to start writing. Historically that could mean fucking 10 years. [Laughs] We're only ever going to release something that we feel comfortable with or else it's not worth releasing basically.

So you are realistic about the timeline?

Of course, we'll release it when it feels like we've got something to say. I think most probably any one of us would prefer to go and take up some van driving job than release an album that we didn't feel comfortable about.

So it may be a minute again.

If I could do it in a couple of weeks then I'd love to. The pressure it'd take off my wife is huge, but it's less likely too. I can only speak for myself and usually it only comes around when I'm really, really infused with music I hear around me. If I hear music around me that freaks me out and actually scares me into wanting to test myself, then usually I'm pretty progressive and come up with stuff. If I don't hear stuff around me then usually it takes quite a while.