Umm...

Emailed to a friend about 2 minutes ago:

"So I just wanted to let you know that Portishead has struck again with another album. As I was waiting for the song to buffer on Last.com I was reading all the reviews which were raving with excitement and for a moment, a brief little glimmer of hope entered my mind and told me that perhaps, just perhaps, this wouldn't be too bad. It was finally finished buffering and I pressed play.

I got through about thirty seconds of it before I closed the tab and said to myself, "apparently not..."

(no offense to all the portishead fans out there - it just isn't my thing)