Dummy

Portishead · 1994 · Electronic

Dummy by Portishead (1994), № 74 in The Lead-In’s 100 greatest albums. Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley invent trip-hop in a Bristol bedsit. Recorded onto two-inch tape and bounced through a turntable. Nobody dances; everybody listens.

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