PORTISHEAD - DUMMY (IMPORT LP)

Portishead Dummy on Import Vinyl! 

1994 Trip-Hop Pop Set Echoes With Emotional Pain and Cabaret Grooves! 

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 sonic linchpins that define the album's 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.

Ranked #419 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Portishead Dummy Track Listing:

1. Mysterons 
2. Sour Times 
3. Strangers 
4. It Could Be Sweet 
5. Wandering Star 
6. It's A Fire 
7. Numb 
8. Roads 
9. Pedestal 
10. Biscuit 
11. Glory Box