Name: Dummy
Brand: Portishead

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GOBT8285221.1

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Holland Import. Standard Black Vinyl.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2013-10-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Lasgo

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

042282852212

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

Artist

Portishead

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Mercury

Essential

The classic debut Portishead album from 1994. The collaboration of studio whiz Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made at the same time as a short film noir called To Kill a Dead Man, 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, dehumanized 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, Massive Attack.

Dummy

Music US