Dummy [VINYL]

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Their cinematic inclinations are borne out in the fact that they made an actual short film, To Kill a Dead Man, before the album itself. Quotation marks around "Dummy" on label are identical to each other and not of the complementary, '66''99' variety. She follows the contours of her voice along its breathy edge, cutting sharply through the meat of a glissando, falling back on the catch in her throat. Track B4: Jhonnie Ray [sic] from " I'll Never Fall In Love Again" courtesy of Carlyle Music Publishing/Sony Music Entertainment Inc. for those that don't like this pressing, I am pretty sure you don't have this pressing but one of a dozen lesser copies that have made their way around.

In the closing “Glory Box,” on the other hand, she is as incendiary as Utley’s overdriven guitar riffs, and when she sings, “This is the beginning/Of forever and ever, oh,” her sigh feels like a hole torn in the fabric of the universe. Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment.Like film noir, with its fondness for Venetian blinds and ceiling fans, Dummy thrives on mixing light and dark, hard and soft, positive and negative space. Without a public persona to measure Gibbons’ performance against, her presence within the songs was, and remains, that much more formidable. The vinyl "resurgence" has seen all sorts of subpar turntables retailed, and yet expectations to be wowed by vinyl predominate. His full length debut on Daptone Records is equal parts raw feeling and elegance and exudes confidence and charm. A3 samples Weather Report from " Elegant People" courtesy of MCA Music/Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Their core lineup consisted of Geoff Barrow, a 22-year-old hip-hop fan obsessed with turntable alchemy; Adrian Utley, a 37-year-old jazz guitarist looking for a way out of the 20th century; and Beth Gibbons, a 29-year-old singer who’d grown up on a farm and, prior to Portishead, had “probably done more singing in her bedroom than on stage,” Barrow reckoned. Even more remarkable is how they treat Johnnie Ray’s “ I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” on “Biscuit,” slowing its refrain down to 16 RPM and turning a sticky-sweet wad of ’50s bubblegum into a druggy dirge. It’s possible to hear in Dummy a collection of gratifyingly sad-but-sexy gestures, and plenty of Portishead’s followers—Lamb, Morcheeba, Olive, Alpha, Mono, Hooverphonic, Sneaker Pimps, and dozens of other acts forever lost to the cut-out bin of history—did just that. Some lines stand out as clearly as dog-eared diary entries: “Give me a reason to love you/Give me a reason to be a woman”; “Nobody loves me, it’s true/Not like you do”; “How can it feel this wrong? Swooshing sound in right channel that pervades throughout the entire side, makes it nearly unlistenable.A few fuzzy sibilants in Wandering Star (last track on side A), as is sometimes the case with last tracks near the centre of the record, but nothing major or out of the ordinary to detract from the quality of the music. Dummy’s closest antecedent was Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, and not by coincidence: Barrow had worked as an errand boy and tape op in Bristol’s Coach House Studios while that record was being made.

We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. Where most of the decade’s cutting-edge electronic music was zealous about its agenda, Dummy pledged allegiance only to a mood. Unlike most of their peers, Portishead didn’t rely on the same hoary Ultimate Breaks and Beats bootlegs that fueled the majority of the era’s club tracks. Some musicians speak of soundtracks to imaginary films; they created an imaginary soundtrack to use as their source material.Distinguished from Portishead - Portishead and Portishead - Portishead which has Sterling RJ in the runout of Side C (making that a 2000s pressing) and Portishead - Portishead which has TML-M in deadwax and UMG rather than PolyGram on label.