Release date: 30-04-2008 (originally released in 1994)

2008 German limited edition 10-track LP pressed on 180gram VIRGIN VINYL - Portishead's 1994 debut, "Dummy", is a timeless album that swings from mood to mood(from heartbreakingly dark to teary eyed to slightly optimistic). And implies many styles( rock, jazz, soul, hip hop, gospel, classical) while keeping it consistent and gaspingly beautiful. "Dummy" doesn't even sound like it was recorded in ANY era. It's ahead of it's time while keeping a effective film-noir quality - Sealed in picture sleeve

Tracks:
01. Mysterons
02. Sour Times
03. Strangers
04. It Could Be Sweet
05. Wandering Star
06. Numb
07. Roads
08. Pedestal
09. Biscuit
10. Glory Box

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.