Dummy
by Portishead
- Type: Album
- Released: 22 August 1994
- Label: Go! Beat, London
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 48:58
- Community rating: 4.48/5 from 159 ratings
Artists on this release: Adrian Utley, Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'Dummy', Portishead constructed a landmark of 1990s trip-hop by layering Beth Gibbons' desolate, blues-laden vocals over a distinctive fusion of cinematic atmospheres and dark, hip-hop-inspired breakbeats. The album's influential sound was achieved through innovative analog production, where original instrumental recordings were pressed to vinyl and then physically distressed to create unique, vintage-sounding samples, cementing its critical and popular legacy with a 1995 Mercury Music Prize win.
Genres
Descriptors: downtempo, dusty, sample-heavy, atmospheric, moody
Tracklist
- Mysterons (5:05)
- Sour Times (4:12)
- Strangers (3:57)
- It Could Be Sweet (4:17)
- Wandering Star (4:53)
- It's A Fire (3:46)
- Numb (3:55)
- Roads (5:03)
- Pedestal (3:40)
- Biscuit (5:02)
- Glory Box (5:08)
Credits
- Geoff Barrow - production, rhodes piano, drums, programming, string arrangements, sampling, scratching, loop-making
- Beth Gibbons - vocals, production, writer
- Adrian Utley - production, guitar, bass guitar, theremin, hammond organ, string arrangements, cimbaloms, writer
- Clive Deamer - drums
- Gary Baldwin - hammond organ
- Neil Solman - rhodes piano, hammond organ
- Richard Newell - drum programming
- Andy Hague - trumpet
- Strings Unlimited - strings
- Dave McDonald - engineer, nose flute