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Portishead, Dummy

Audio CD

Disk ID: 904186

Disk length: 36m 46s (1 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1994

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Sour times36:44

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Review

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

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Dummy

Tracks: 10 (+9 tracks), Disk length: 44m 35s (+7m 49s)

Dummy

Tracks: 10 (+9 tracks), Disk length: 45m 36s (+8m 50s)

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Tracks: 10 (+9 tracks), Disk length: 45m 36s (+8m 50s)

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Dummy

Tracks: 11 (+10 tracks), Disk length: 48m 49s (+12m 3s)

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