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Portishead
Dummy - Back To Black Issue
CD
£ 6.99
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CAT NUMBER: 828 522-2
RELEASE DATE: 28 Jan '08
Ltd LP
£ 13.99
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FORMAT INFO: Limited 180g pressing.
CAT NUMBER: 533 8567
RELEASE DATE: 13 Aug '12 (originally released 24 Mar '08)
STAFF COMMENTS

Philippa says: An era defining 'trip hop' album that was leaps and bounds ahead of the chasing pack. One of those essential albums for your record collection.

Andy says: From Johnny Marr to Jamie XX, everybody fell in love with this massively influential debut album.

ABOUT THIS ITEM

Hip hop enthusiast and obsessive break hunter Geoff Barrow, jazz musician Adrian Utley and singer-songwriter Beth Gibbons created Portishead's genre defining 'trip hop' album "Dummy" in 1994. The set's combination of head-nod beats and cinematic atmospherics (including Theremin, Rhodes, and Hammond) both sampled and played live, was given an extra twist by Barrow, who pressed the recordings up on vinyl and scratch-mixed them together, passing the resulting tapes on to Gibbons to add lyrics and a tune to. And it's Gibbon's who lifts the album into Mercury Music prize-winning territory, adding a heart-rending melancholia with her fragile folk-soul vocals. Featuring the singles "Sour Times" and "Glory Box", "Dummy" is just one of those must-have albums.

TRACK LISTING

1. Mysterons (5:02)
2. Sour Times (4:11)
3. Strangers (3:55)
4. It Could Be Sweet (4:16)
5. Wandering Star (4:51)
6. It's A Fire (3:49)
7. Numb (3:54)
8. Roads (5:02)
9. Pedestal (3:39)
10. Biscuit (5:01)
11. Glory Box (5:06)