Not gonna lie. I’m drunk. Bare with me, will you? But I do remember when Portishead’s Third dropped. Waiting for weeks. Buying the posters from Sound Exchange. I was jazzed as shit, my dudes.
So, you know, the album drops and I can finally soothe my Beth Gibbons addiction for another two or three years or so. I buy it. I get it home. I go to pop it in and give it a thorough listen when I decide “Wait! This journey needs some weed to make it more authentic.” Or some shit. I dunno. Cut me some slack, I was young.
Several reefer cigarettes later and I was balls deep into this thing I was starting to have some mixed feelings about. But then Threads happened. It’s toward the end of the album and quite frankly I was starting to get a little sleepy and hungry. The backing strings drew me in as my stoned af ears tried to adjust to be able to fully appreciate the other goings on in the song. Suddenly a jarring chorus wakes me out of my half baked stupor. A few seconds of laser focus tick by before I’m back to letting the music lull me into a more mellow mood. Another chorus. I’m awake and wondering why I’m always so unsure. Then I’m right back to cruising the highway at 3am, not another car in sight as the street lights flick through the open sun roof perhaps a little faster than I’m used to. This ride continues until the songs starts to climax. It’s almost done. Damn. But then it doesn’t fade out. It doesn’t fade out at all. The music does, sure. But what I’m left with is a solid minute of sound that makes me feel like I’m standing in the middle of the road in Silent Hill and shit’s about to go down.
Then it stops.
So yeah. Without further AHdew, here’s Portishead’s Threads.
Stand, stand, damned one
Hey hey! Thanks for listening. I know how eagerly all 2 of you have long awaited the next installment after that 80 ditty. Hope it wasn’t too entirely disappointing. Or really, who cares? The kids are asleep, so I’m gonna go take another couple shots. OR maybe I’ll make a mixed drink. I got this Pinnacle Whipped vodka recently and found out it’s actually pretty legit if you mix it with the right shit. Orange drank, for example. But I digress...
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