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Portishead: Dumb & Dummy

Craig McLean, Vox, July 1995

Taking their low wattage torch music from the studio to the stage is a massive gamble for Portishead. Can Bristol's tag shy jazz-soul experimentalists survive the hype? Will Beth Gibbons ever speak? And will Geoff Barrow's apocalyptic prophecy ever come to pass...?

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