Portishead: 'We're discussing new LP'

Adrian Utley has claimed that Portishead are already discussing the follow-up to this year's Third LP.

The guitarist said it is unlikely that the wait for the band's fourth record will be as long as the 11-year gap between their second and third.

"We are thinking a new album," he told the BBC. "That's partly why we're not touring enormously, because in 1998 we toured for a year and a bit and it just crashed us.

"None of us wanted to see each other for a while after that."

He continued: "We got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together. We're all gonna be doing stuff. We've finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do."