The success of the album saw the band nominated for Best British Newcomer at the 1995 Brit Awards. Dummy spawned three singles: " Numb", " Sour Times" and " Glory Box", and won the Mercury Music Prize in 1995.
Rolling Stone praised its music as " Gothic hip-hop". Dummy was positively described by the Melody Maker as "musique noire for a movie not yet made". Adrian Utley, who co-produced the album with them (and who played on nine of the tracks and co-wrote eight), became an official band member shortly after its release.ĭespite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States (where it sold more than 150,000 copies even before the band toured there). The crs indicate that at this juncture, Portishead was a duo of Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons. The cover features a still from the band's own short film To Kill a Dead Man. The resulting first album by Portishead, Dummy, was released in 1994. They then met Adrian Utley while they were recording at the Coach House Studios in Bristol, and Utley heard the first song Barrow and Gibbons had recorded, and began to exchange ideas on music.
That year they recorded their first song for the album, "It Could Be Sweet". Geoff Barrow and Beth Gibbons met during a coffee break at an Enterprise Allowance course in February 1991.
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