PORTISHEAD - Dummy emi Their brand of new wave

Their brand of new wave synth-pop full of bright melodies and heavenly choruses is as euphoric and uninhibitedly joyful as anything the band has done in their 14-year career

Song From A Mourning Dove/11

after being contacted by Beggars Arkive about a reissue

Shina Williams

A: Love Will Tear Us Apart

PORTISHEAD - Dummy emi Their brand of new waveLP Black Vinyl The classic debut Portishead album from 1994. 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, its true) and the more cryptic Glory Box are the lynchpins of the album,