Dummy [VINYL]

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In “Wandering Star,” her tone sounds almost flirtatious, despite the overwhelming vastness of her subject matter: “Wandering stars/For whom it is reserved/The blackness, the darkness, forever. Recorded at State Of Art and Coach House Studios, Bristol with additional mixing at Moles Studio, Bath.

Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. My version does have the misspelled 'Jhonnie Ray' credit on Biscuit, but the quotation marks on Dummy are the 66 99 variety.

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 lynchpins of the album, defining its sound: dark flashes of old soul and film music, dehumanised 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. Despite its reputation as dinner-party music, it is straight-up discomfort food: curl-up-and-die music, head-under-the-covers music. The band has several festival appearances scheduled for August, starting on the 15th at Route Du Rock in St. However, mine has all the same characteristics as both versions except the speech marks around DUMMY on mine are of the the “66” “99” variety and NOT identical.

Some later issues also include the remix "Sour Sour Times" plus the "To Kill A Dead Man" track (from the film which led to Portishead's record contract and the cover image used on "Dummy").

Its obsessions are too specific, and too doggedly pursued: the spy-movie twang of the guitars, the ripple of the Hammond organs and Leslie cabinets—if anything, its vintage signifiers feel out of step with that era’s rush of pre-millennium tension. Given that it's hard to tell the difference between the 2008 reissue and this without opening the packaging probably explains why this happened. Haven't read about anyone else having this issue but just throught I'd put this information out there. The “Sour Times” beat resembles James Brown’s iconic “ Funky Drummer” break, but transposed for a planet with only half of Earth’s gravity. Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivating performers on today's soul scene.