Portishead’s Geoff Barrow has admitted that ‘Third’ could be the band’s final record.

The instrumentalist says that the album, released this week, is definitely their last on their current label home of Universal - and possibly their final one ever.

He tells BBC6music: “Perhaps it could be our last record but I hope not – everyone’s really happy and now we seem like we’ve broken through this wall that has been kind of like stopping us for making music for such a long time. We all feel it’s fairly good.”

Quizzed further as to whether they have any ideas for possible future material, Barrow explained that nothing is concrete.

“We’ve got some ideas of what we would like to do but they’re really just rough ideas.

“I mean – if we haven’t got a record deal we could put it out ourselves, we could go to a large indie that y’know really likes music.

“We haven’t talked to any body yet – we haven’t talked to Universal yet,” he said.

(by Scott Colothan)