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Rating:
THE REVIEW
The album is a benchmark.
Please follow me in a consideration: in TV commercials, songs are chosen to "appropriately accompany" the message they want to convey to the (potential) customer.
For a car, a message of modernity, evolution, and dissociation from the stressful world of traffic and commitments we encounter with our cars is intended... that's why usually the most captivating, modern, creative, and I dare say "original" tunes accompany a car commercial. Have you ever noticed?
Portishead is the only project that managed to impose a 9-year-old track of theirs in a car commercial. (and if the tune convinces someone to spend several million lire to get the car, how can you resist owning the CD?)
P.S. I offer a prize to anyone who can guess the name of the musical genre (it's not among those proposed now, but who knows, maybe they'll add it later). Bye.
[Editor's Note: Did you look carefully among the genres?]
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Summary by Bot
Portishead's Dummy is hailed as a benchmark album by the reviewer. The unique sound of the album even led to a 9-year-old track being featured in a car commercial. This highlights its originality, creativity, and lasting cultural relevance. The review challenges readers to identify the album's distinctive genre.
Portishead
Portishead are an English band from Bristol, widely associated with the trip-hop movement. The core lineup is Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley.14 Reviews
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By lovi
Add in epic and cinematic sounds, and heartrending and melancholic lyrics, and you feel transported into a three-dimensional dimension.
Beth shows all the J.LO or Spears what it means to have a bold voice... that naturally knows how to captivate.
By manliuzzo
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Each track offers a different image, together creating a colorful and varied musical vision.
By The_dull_flame
This album engages, which is more difficult: you feel in the middle of the record, as if Beth were singing beside you.
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By luludia
What is this stuff? Hyper-depressed dub? Melancholic white soul?
The voice, that voice, comes from there....
