Portishead – Dummy (Vinyl)
Go! Beat Records (1994 / This Pressing 2017)
$45.00
Brand New ~ Sealed! Quality 180 Gram Vinyl With Inner Sleeve. The Classic Debut!
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Brand New ~ Sealed! Quality Reissue On 180 Gram Vinyl. Includes Inner Sleeve. The Classic Debut Album By English Band, Portishead.
Released in August 1994, ‘Dummy’ earned critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. ‘Dummy’ is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s.
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.
Side 1:
Mysterons
Sour Times
Strangers
It Could Be Sweet
Wandering Star
Side 2:
Numb
Roads
Pedestal
Biscuit
Glory Box
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Better than any album before it, Dummy merged the pinpoint-precise productions of the dance world with pop hallmarks like great songwriting and excellent vocal performances. Portishead's album debut is a brilliant, surprisingly natural synthesis of claustrophobic spy soundtracks, dark breakbeats inspired by frontman Geoff Barrow's love of hip-hop, and a vocalist (Beth Gibbons) in the classic confessional singer/songwriter mold. Beginning with the otherworldly theremin and martial beats of "Mysterons," Dummy hits an early high with "Sour Times," a post-modern torch song driven by a Lalo Schifrin sample. The chilling atmospheres conjured by Adrian Utley's excellent guitar work and Barrow's turntables and keyboards prove the perfect foil for Gibbons, who balances sultriness and melancholia in equal measure. Occasionally reminiscent of a torchier version of Sade, Gibbons provides a clear focus for these songs, with Barrow and company behind her laying down one of the best full-length productions ever heard in the dance world. Where previous acts like Massive Attack had attracted dance heads in the main, Portishead crossed over to an American, alternative audience, connecting with the legion of angst-ridden indie fans as well. Better than any album before it, Dummy merged the pinpoint-precise productions of the dance world with pop hallmarks like great songwriting and excellent vocal performances.