The high pitched beep at the beginning of this track should serve as a warning to the uninitiated. Portishead is a bleak land populated by fractured beats and the tortured vocals of Beth Gibbons. Add into this dramatic piano thuds and a strangled trumpet that sounds like a drunk elephant and you have ‘Magic Door’, the penultimate track on their album ‘Third’. But for fans of Portishead of old, we expected more than this. Gibbons laments ‘I don’t know who I’m meant to be’, and sadly, we don’t know either.
Forge Music says, 2/5
Kimberley Long
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