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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042282855329 Label: Polygram Records Manufacturer: Polygram Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polygram Records Release Date: October 17, 1994 Studio: Polygram Records Sales Rank: 1346 MPN: 828553
Amazon.com: 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
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Rating: - One of the greatest dance/electronic albums ever
"Trip-hop"? "Downtempo"? Although it is a dark record, between Beth Gibbons' tortured voice, Geoff Barrows' beats, scratches and samples, and Adrian Utleys' jazzy guitar: this album is pure sex.
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Rating: - This album will consume you.
The beats on this album are awesome, it's like they came through a rip in reality from an alter-universe. The lyrics are alright, they are too unhappy for my taste, Beth's voice is wonderful though.
Rating: - Essential electronic album.
What can be said that already hasn't been said? I don't think there's much. This must have REALLY seemed ground-breaking at the time: Backbeats that sometimes recall hip-hop elements and some real soaring, ... Read More
Rating: - The Towering Classic From the 90's
What can I say that hasn't been said in other reviews? Well, for me this is the one essential trip-hop album. But it goes way beyond being a very successful pop or trip-hop disc. What Portishead established ... Read More
Rating: - Incredible Range
This is almost the perfect album. I bought this recently having listened to it years ago and it was like finding an old classical watch or something. It moved me. The hits are great of course- 'Sour Times' and ... Read More
- One of the greatest dance/electronic albums ever
- This album will consume you.