sawyl | Observer on Third

Enthusiastic piece on Portishead in today's Observer. The article kicks off with a rhapsodic take on the new album:

It's stunning stuff. And this is just the opening number. Later on, once Third (for that is the title: it is, after all, Portishead's third album - well, if you don't count the live one) is properly up and running, it features a run of five or six songs which are not just worthy of the records this band were making 10 or even 14 years ago, but feel like the sonic destination which they were always meant to arrive at.

Sounds promising.