We're always interested in putting drums through amps- things that people probably had done, we were just discovering our own way of doing things. Geoff Barrow: And we were always trying to do new techniques. We had studio experience but never professionally. Pitchfork: Do you think Portishead suffered, in a funny way, from making such a fully achieved debut record? Most bands don't really know what they're doing in a studio when they start out, and only gradually get better.Īdrian Utley: We definitely didn't know how to work in a studio. Maybe it's because Third is a triumph, genuinely invigorated with reinvention and fresh purpose, but Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley are on rare form, talking with wonderful ebullience and enthusiasm, finishing each other's sentences, freewheeling through the dilemmas of Lara Croft, the life-changing impact of Public Enemy, the coolness of Michael Caine, and the mystery of the sonic unconscious. All things considered, they seem to be taking it remarkably well.
Now they've reemerged and the world's press have descended on them: questioning their every motivation, demanding they account for their long absence and explain their strange new sound worlds.
In that time Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley have variously and individually collapsed from exhaustion, founded record labels, made solo records, started families, bought a lot of old recording equipment, and gradually, painfully slowly, thought their way round to making a third record. It's been 10 years since the last Portishead record, 1998's live recording of a show at the New York Roseland Ballroom.
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