Portishead have announced that they are ready to start planning their fourth album, the follow-up to Uncutโ€™s album of 2008, Third.

Geoff Barrow, speaking to BBC 6 Music has said that fans wonโ€™t have to wait eleven years, as was the case with Third, saying that the band have started forming plans to start recording.

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Barrow said: โ€œWhen everyoneโ€™s had a bit of a break, I think weโ€™re just going to plough onto it. I think weโ€™re kind of there now. Weโ€™ve sat down and weโ€™ve talked about the direction and stuff like that.

โ€œEveryone seems really positive about it. And I think everybody at some point wants to get back out on the road, because we didnโ€™t really do an awful lot of live stuff. Whatโ€™s really interesting is that weโ€™re in this lucky position now. We havenโ€™t got a record company; our deal ended and so did our publishing deal.

โ€œSo we pretty much own all of our own rights now, which is scary as well as exciting really, so weโ€™re thinking of loads of different ways of doing things.โ€

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