Portishead: 'This may be our last album'

Portishead have claimed that their new album Third may be the last of their career.

Geoff Barrow said the new LP may signal the end for the band, but added that he was optimistic they could continue working together.

He told the BBC: "Perhaps it could be our last record but I hope not.

"Everyone’s really happy and now we seem like we’ve broken through this wall that has been kind of like stopping us from making music for such a long time. We all feel it’s fairly good."

The instrumentalist also said that the group were considering their options when it came to choosing a label for future releases.

"We’ve got some ideas of what we would like to do but they’re really just rough ideas," he said.

"I mean - if we haven’t got a record deal we could put it out ourselves, we could go to a large indie that, y’know, really likes music. We haven’t talked to anybody yet – we haven’t talked to Universal yet."