Dummy (UK Version LP)

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Portishead
Dummy (UK Version LP)

[ Go Beat / LP ]

Release Date: Saturday 1 January 2000

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Named for a town near Bristol, England, Portishead are a British dance band that grabs ideas from all over the mod pop world (spaghetti Western guitars, turntable scratching, melancholy soul vocals, atmospheric organs, house beats) and stirs them into spacey, dub-like productions that sound like a dance club in the middle of a "Twin Peaks" dream. You could call it surreal hip-hop pop. But if the beats on the band's debut album achieve a kind of trance-like static, the songs themselves reach for something more rousing.

With understated lyrics and overstated melodies, singer Beth Gibbons and bandleader Geoff Barrow write insinuatingly melancholy dance ballads that ebb and flow like waves through rustling waters. Organs quaver in quiet tremolos, guitars emit squiggles and turntables hiccup, while Gibbons, in a high, cutting voice that evokes a less breathy Sinead O'Connor, sings songs of longing and heartbreak with equally palpable emotion.

Winner of the Mercury Music Prize in 1995, Dummy has stood the test of time as one of the essential musical masterpieces of the British Trip Hop movement, for lack of a better term.

Tracks:

Side A:
1. Mysterons
2. Sour Times
3. Strangers
4. It Could Be Sweet
5. Wandering Star

Side B:
1. Numb
2. Roads
3. Pedestal
4. Biscuit
5. Glory Box