Dummy (album)

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Dummy
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Studio album by
Portishead
Released22 August 1994
Recorded1993–1994 [1]
StudioState of Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol [1]
Genre Trip hop [2]
Length49:21
Label
Producer
Portishead chronology
Dummy
(1994)		 Glory Times
(1995)
Singles from Dummy
  1. "Numb"
    Released: 13 June 1994
  2. "Sour Times"
    Released: 1 August 1994
  3. "Glory Box"
    Released: 24 September 1994

Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records. [3]

Contents

The album received critical acclaim and won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize. It is often credited with popularising the trip hop genre, and is frequently cited in lists of the best albums of the 1990s. Dummy was certified triple platinum in the UK in February 2019, [4] and had sold 920,000 copies in the United Kingdom as of September 2020. [5] Worldwide, the album had sold 3.6 million copies by 2008. [6]

Background

Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons met during an Enterprise Allowance course in February 1991. [1] They started recording their first ideas for the songs in Neneh Cherry's kitchen in London while Barrow was hired by her husband Cameron McVey to work on her second album, Homebrew (1992). [7] In Bristol, they recorded at the Coach House Studios. The first song that they finished for the album was "It Could Be Sweet" in 1991. [1] Adrian Utley then met Barrow while they were recording at Coach House Studios, heard their first recorded track "It Could Be Sweet", and started exchanging ideas on music. Barrow taught Utley sampling while Utley introduced the band to unusual sounds such as cimbaloms and theremins, which led to an "amalgamation of ideas". [7] According to Barrow, "It was like a light-bulb coming on" when Utley joined them, and they realised they could make their own samples not found on other records, and created one of the most distinctive sounds of the decade. [1]

The production of the album uses a number of hip hop techniques, such as sampling, scratching, and loop-making. [8] The album was not recorded digitally. They sampled music from other records, but they also recorded their own original music, which was then recorded onto vinyl records before manipulating them on record decks to sample. [9] [10] In order to create a vintage sound, Barrow said that they distressed the vinyl records they had recorded by "putting them on the studio floor and walking across them and using them like skateboards", and they also recorded the sound through a broken amplifier. [8] For the track "Sour Times", the album samples Lalo Schifrin's "The Danube Incident" and Smokey Brooks' (Henry Brooks, Otis Turner) "Spin It Jig"; for "Strangers", Weather Report's (Wayne Shorter) "Elegant People"; for "Wandering Star", War's "Magic Mountain"; for "Biscuit", Johnnie Ray's "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" (not the Bacharach/David song); and for "Glory Box", Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Rap II".

Dummy was released in August 1994. It helped to cement the reputation of Bristol as the capital of trip hop, a nascent genre which was then often referred to simply as "the Bristol sound". Listing it among the best trip hop albums, Fact said in 2015 that Dummy "was soaked in the same DIY, melting pot approach that typified much of Bristol's output at the time", and "laid bare the potentials afforded by sidestepping rigid genre formats." [2] The album helped trip hop cross over to mainstream popularity, with music journalist Simon Reynolds reporting in 1995 that Dummy had become "popular background music in cafes and boutiques" and found appeal among audiences of other genres, including alternative rock and R&B listeners. [11]

Singles

The first song released from the album was "Numb". Two further singles were released from the album: "Glory Box", which reached number 13 on the UK Singles Chart; [12] and "Sour Times", which was released before "Glory Box" but re-released after the success of "Glory Box", also reaching number 13 on its re-release in 1995. [12] The success of both singles drove the sales of the album, which eventually reached number two on the UK Albums Chart. "Sour Times" achieved moderate success in the U.S., reaching peak positions of number five and number 53 on the Billboard Alternative Songs and Hot 100 charts, respectively, in February 1995. [13] [14] On 3 December 2008, Universal Music Japan released Dummy and Portishead as limited SHM-CD versions.

The tracks "Roads" and "Strangers" were used in the soundtrack of the film Nadja . [15]

Artwork

The cover of the album is a still image of vocalist Beth Gibbons taken from To Kill a Dead Man —the short film that the band created—for which the self-composed soundtrack earned the band its record contract.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [16]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [17]
Entertainment Weekly A− [18]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [19]
NME 9/10 [20]
Pitchfork 9.5/10 [21]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [22]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [23]
Select 4/5 [24]
Uncut 10/10 [25]

Upon release, Dummy received universal acclaim from critics. NME reviewer Stephen Dalton summed up the record by writing: "This is, without question, a sublime debut album. But so very, very sad." He observed, "From one angle, its languid slowbeat blues clearly occupy similar terrain to soulmates Massive Attack and all of Bristol hip-hop's extended family. But from another these are avant garde ambient moonscapes of a ferociously experimental nature." Dalton concluded that "Portishead's post-ambient, timelessly organic blues are probably too left-field, introspective and downright Bristolian to grab short-term glory as some kind of Next Big Thing. But remember what radical departures Blue Lines , Ambient Works and Debut were for their times and make sure you hear this unmissable album." [20] Melody Maker 's Sharon O'Connell stated that the band "are undeniably the classiest, coolest thing to have appeared in this country for years ... Dummy, their debut, takes perfectly understated blues, funk and rap/hip hop, brackets all this in urban angst and then chills it to the bone." She described the record as "musique noire for a movie not yet made, a perfect, creamy mix of ice-cool and infra-heat that is desolate, desperate and driven by a huge emotional hunger, but also warmly confiding ... Most of us waver hopelessly between emotional timidity and temerity the whole of our lives and Dummy marks out that territory perfectly." [26]

In Q , Martin Aston lauded Dummy as "perhaps the year's most stunning debut album" and proclaimed that "the singer's frail, wounded-sparrow vocals and Barrow's mastery of jazz-sensitive soul/hip hop grooves and the almost forgotten art of scratching are an enthralling combination". [22] Ben Thompson said in Mojo that "Portishead make music for an early evening drinks party on the set of The Third Man . There is nothing kitschy about them either ... Beth Gibbons' voice has a genuine chill to it, and Geoff Barrow's background soundscapes are worthy of Lalo Schiffrin and Nellee Hooper." [27] Tim Marsh of Select wrote: "Jumbling up hip hop, blues, jazz, dub and John Barry-esque TV theme tunes with the edgy lyrics and valium vocals of Beth Gibbons, it's lounge music for arty schizos." [24]

Reviews in the United States were also positive. Paul Evans remarked in Rolling Stone : "From tape loops and live strings, Fender Rhodes riffing and angelic singing, these English subversives construct très hip Gothic hip-hop ... Assertive rhythms and quirky production, however, save Portishead from languishing in any coy retro groove. Instead they manage yet another – very smart – rebirth of cool." [23] Entertainment Weekly 's Steven Mirkin found the album "as musically compelling as it is emotionally chilly", [18] while Lorraine Ali praised it in the Los Angeles Times as "a new world of sonic esoterica ... lush and rich, yet delicate and haunting." [19] Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot credited Portishead for achieving a "musical richness" despite working in a "single, melancholy vein" throughout Dummy. [17] In the Pazz & Jop, polling prominent American critics nationwide, Dummy was voted the 14th-best album of 1994. [28] The poll's supervisor Robert Christgau, however, remained relatively lukewarm, highlighting "Sour Times" and "Wandering Star" while briefly appraising the album overall as "Sade for androids". [29]

Retrospective reviews of the album have praised it highly. AllMusic's John Bush wrote: "Portishead's album debut is a brilliant, surprisingly natural synthesis of claustrophobic spy soundtracks, dark breakbeats inspired by frontman Geoff Barrow's love of hip-hop, and a vocalist (Beth Gibbons) in the classic confessional singer/songwriter mold ... Better than any album before it, Dummy merged the pinpoint-precise productions of the dance world with pop hallmarks like great songwriting and excellent vocal performances." [16] Laura Barton recommended it as Portishead's key release in Uncut , commenting that the band, by setting their own original compositions to looped and scratched samples from "distressed vinyl", created "an introspective and avant-garde blues". [25] In 2010, BBC Music reviewer Mike Diver called Dummy "quite simply one of the greatest debut albums of the 1990s" and said that "the constituents that make up much of this collection are easily traced – back to dub, to soul, and especially to hip hop ... But it's the manner in which the pieces come together that makes Dummy special to this day ... Imitators have come and gone, but no act has reproduced the disquieting magnificence conjured here except Portishead themselves." [30] Writing for Pitchfork in 2017, Philip Sherburne summarised that "Portishead's 1994 debut is a masterwork of downbeat and desperation. They invented their own kind of virtuosity, one that encompassed musicianship, technology, and aura." [21]

Accolades

Dummy won the 1995 Mercury Music Prize, beating stiff competition which included PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love , Oasis' Definitely Maybe , and Tricky's Maxinquaye .

Track listing

All tracks are written by Portishead

No.TitleLength
1."Mysterons"5:02
2."Sour Times"4:14
3."Strangers"3:55
4."It Could Be Sweet"4:16
5."Wandering Star"4:51
6."It's a Fire" (not on vinyl LP or original UK & Europe versions of album)3:48
7."Numb"3:54
8."Roads"5:02
9."Pedestal"3:39
10."Biscuit"5:01
11."Glory Box"5:06
Canadian bonus track edition
No.TitleLength
12."Sour Sour Times"4:01

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Dummy
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Belgium (BEA) [64] Platinum50,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [65] Platinum100,000^
Italy (FIMI) [66] Gold25,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [67] 2× Platinum30,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [68] Gold25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [4] 3× Platinum920,000 [5]
United States (RIAA) [69] Gold1,100,000 [70]
Summaries
Europe (IFPI) [71] 2× Platinum2,000,000*
Worldwide—3,600,000 [6]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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