Dummy
Portishead
Music
★★★★★5.0
2 added as a keeper · 2 ratings · 2 liner notes
OriginUnited Kingdom
Traditiontrip hop
Release date1994-01-01
LabelAn Island Records Release; ℗ 1994 Go! Discs Ltd.
1 Mysterons 5:06
2 Sour Times 4:14
3 Strangers 3:58
4 It Could Be Sweet 4:20
5 Wandering Star 4:54
6 It’s a Fire 3:49
7 Numb 3:58
8 Roads 5:05
9 Pedestal 3:41
10 Biscuit 5:04
11 Glory Box 5:06
Popular liner notes
"This is an album I simply could not live without. I listen to a ton of Metal and other "Heavy" Music. This is Heavy in a completely different way and I love it so much. Seeing them live back then was one of the best shows I've even been to. They even did a Rocked out version of Sour Times which was kind of crazy."
★★★★★
— mastermagician
"I found this in my mom's CD collection when I was twelve, no case, just the disc scratched up in a pile with other things she'd stopped needing. I didn't know what trip-hop was. I just knew the sound of it matched something I couldn't name yet. I've listened to it probably five hundred times since. Glory Box ends the album and I've never made it through without stopping whatever I'm doing and just standing there. Beth Gibbons sounds like she's singing from inside something she can't get out of. I've never met anyone who sounds more like how tinnitus feels."
★★★★★
— b.side
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