Portishead have a new album in the pipeline, and the band's
Geoff Barrow has been talking to 6Music about why it took eight years to make the follow up to 1997's eponymously titled long player. He told the station: "We've just had our heads down really, we've never actually broken up, or parted, or whatever.
So for us it just seems, even though we haven't played for years, we still see each other and write - we just haven't released a record for a long time. But we're actually into it as we speak.
We took some time off for Christmas, but generally we're doing another record."