There’s an interesting snippet in the next issue of Uncut, when the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne talks about Portishead’s “Third”. “It got under my skin,” he says. “From the standpoint of being in a band, they do some fun production things, it’s pretty inspiring. I liked how they embraced more stranger elements of prog-rock, and Silver Apples-influenced drum loops and things like that.”

It's from Vol. 4: The Asylum Years (1976 - 1980)

Lavish multi-disc reissue for official debut by avant-punk psych-rock surrealists

Bulging box focuses on the final version of a headphone classic.

The idiosyncratic songsmith’s path from “very bad” debut to multi-layered latest.

Paris-based psych-rockers gather a punky outlaw army from the Middle East to the West Coast

The folk legend’s solo demos from 1966-’68 released on vinyl for the first time

An eight-minute opus in two halves: part blissed-out space ballad, part focused groove: “The lyric just seemed to roll off,” says Jason Pierce

The gigs now on streaming span the years 1970 to 1972

A fitting update to George’s magnum opus