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Dummy is the debut studio album by English electronic music band Portishead, released on 22 August 1994 by Go! Beat Records. 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.
The Bristol, UK, band’s debut forged the soothing, discomfiting sound of trip-hop. Few debuts have arrived as distinct and fully formed as Portishead’s 1994 release Dummy, a downtempo template for the eerie sound that would go on to become known as trip-hop.
Portishead's debut album, Dummy (1994), fused hip-hop production with yearning vocals from Gibbons and an atmospheric, cinematic style reminiscent of spy film soundtracks. The album was met with commercial and critical acclaim, quickly becoming a landmark album in the emerging trip-hop genre.
May 16, 2024 · Portishead’s debut album, ‘Dummy,’ merged hip-hop with soundtrack atmospherics to create one of the defining albums of the 90s.
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Aug 21, 2019 · In the summer of 1994, when American alternative rock kids were kicking up mud to Nine Inch Nails and Green Day, “Dummy,” the debut album from the Bristol, U.K.-based group Portishead, rolled...
Apr 23, 2017 · Albums. Dummy. Portishead. 1994. 9.5. By Philip Sherburne. Genre: Electronic. Label: Go!Beat. Reviewed: April 23, 2017. Portishead’s 1994 debut is a masterwork of downbeat and desperation....
Aug 22, 1994 · Portishead’s 1994 full-length debut Dummy received critical acclaim, winning the 1995 Mercury Music Prize.
