Portishead - Dummy Come and since leaving the band

and since leaving the band in 2006

the seven-and-a-half-minute ‘Alfie’ leans fully into slow-burning dreampop sprawl

Rather than a simple add-on

dusk settling in

ghostly atmospheres and skewed rhythms collide

Portishead - Dummy Come and since leaving the bandThe 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, it's true") and the more cryptic "Glory Box" are the lynchpins of the album, defining its