 | Dummy - Portishead
Publisher: Universal / Island
Released on 18 June 1999
List Price: £8.99
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, dehumanised electronic bleeps, Gibbons emoting like she's consumed by shame, and a bass-and-beat pulse derived from the slow bump and... Read More
| Mysterons | Sour times | Strangers | It could be sweet |
| Wandering star | Numb | Roads | Pedestal |
| Biscuit | Glory box |
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