For a record that took ten years to make, it seems like Portishead’s Third is going to disappoint a lot of fans. Judging by this first single for “Machine Gun”, gone is the sultry, sad, tears in your beer Portishead, and what has emerged are three people with a serious vendetta to settle. Seriously, listen to those drums: they’re like, well, machine gun fire.

I for one am all about this new sound. If they had come with a classic trip-hop album circa 1996 I would have been disappointed. But this? This I am excited about.