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Album DescriptionJapanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.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,
Album Description Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) pressing. Universal. 2008.
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 linchpins 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. --Douglas Wolk
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Track listing1. 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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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