Name: Dummy
Brand: Portishead

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

8285221

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

[r10147986]

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-05-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Universal

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0042282852212

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Portishead

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Universal-Island Records Ltd.

Essential

The classic debut Portishead album from 1994. The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, <i>Dummy </i>was made at the same time as a short film noir called <i>To Kill a Dead Man</i>, and the same approach - gloomy, tormented, and wildly melodramatic - permeates the album.

"Sour Times" (the hit in which Gibbons cries, again and again, "nobody loves me, it's true") and the more cryptic "Glory Box" are the lynchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanised electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and grind of the Bristol scene that spawned Barrow's old collaborators.

Dummy

Music GB