Portishead – Dummy LP

Portishead – Dummy

The classic debut Portishead album from 1994. The collaboration of studio architect Geoff Barrow and singer Beth Gibbons, Dummy was made alongside a short film noir called To Kill a Dead Man — and the same approach permeates the album: gloomy, tormented and wildly melodramatic.

Sour Times and Glory Box are the lynchpins — defining the record’s 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. One of the most distinctive debut albums of the 1990s and a cornerstone of trip-hop.

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