Dummy - Portishead

8.2	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Polygram Records
Release date : 17 October 1994
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0042282855329
UPC : 042282855329

Electronic (5), Trip Hop (4), 1994 (2), Portishead (2), Downtempo (2), Trip-hop (1), Alternative (1), 1990's (1), Triphop (1), Abstract (1), Album (1), Bought-at:mediamarkt (1), Debut Album (1), Bought 2007 (1), UK (1), Electronica (1), English (1)

Description

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") an ... (more)

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Portishead

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

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8.2/10
124 global ratings

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Grand Assault

Review

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 9 10:41

I've given this album a rating of 4/10 on the basis of the song 'Roads' alone. The rest really didn't impress me. Aside from Roads and the immutable 'Glory Box' (which saturates at least 25% of all adverts every year), there really isn't much on the album that sucks you in.

Nevertheless, this is still regarded as one of the greats. They are a poor mans Massive Attack, and I don't even like Massive Attack.

Rating : 4/10

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