Published at 9:57 AM on July 9, 2008

By Sara Miller

Portishead already working on fourth album

Don't call it a comeback, indeed—call it an impending world takeover. Less than six months after the release of Third, Portishead guitarist Adrian Utley tells BBC 6 Music that the trio "got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together" for a fourth album.

The April arrival of Third—Portishead's third studio LP and its highest-charting album to date—was bookended by a handful of European shows and a paltry one (well, two if you count the semi-secret warm-up gig) in the U.S., as headliners at Coachella.

While eager fans who patiently waited out the band's decade-long hiatus have cause to celebrate Utley's fourth-album teaser tidbit, this is Portishead we're talking about; you should know it can't all be rainbows and ice cream. 

In the same BBC interview, Utley no doubt inspired collective sighs throughout the flyover states—not to mention Manhattan—when he disclosed that the band has "finished ... touring for this album for this year." Utley added that with the hassles of touring out of the way, he, Beth Gibbons and Geoff Barrow can focus on creating Fourth (title rampantly speculative) and giving their families and young children some reasons to love them.

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