Lamb Album: “Lamb”

I just got Lamb's self titled cd yesterday and boy does it kick hard. The drum N bass sound is amazingly heavy and structured on "Lusty" and "Cotton Wool". The latter is a perfect display of contrast, yin and yang, muscular drum n bass against beautiful, silky vocals by Rhodes. At first "Cotton Wool" was a bit jolting but sure is interesting. "Zero", "Closer" and "Gold" are smoothe songs with a catchy grooves, especially "Gold".

Lamb is definitly not for less adventurous listeners of mainstream music though.

I highly recommended Lamb for any trip-hop and jungle fans of Portishead, Bjork, Roni Size and Goldie.

An intriguing debut indeed.

I was first introduced to Lamb back in 1998. This is an AMAZING cd. I only wish they had a little more recognition. Nonetheless, I absolutely cannot get enough of LAMB! It is quite rare for me to like every track on a cd, but with Lamb, I can keep the cd running without passing a song. I was more of a hip hop lover and at first I had my doubts about the cd but after hearing the first track I was hooked. Each track is amazing but my two favorites would be the haunting song GOREKI and GOD BLESS. Lamb is just something different that came in my life when music became so boring and lackluster. Their second album Fear of Fours was a little different but it holds its own. (I prefer the first cd over the second. BUY THIS CD! You will not regret it. A pointer for those reluctant buyers -at first if the music sounds a little different, keep listening with reckless abandon and then you will be HOOKED! =) If you do infact enjoy Lamb, then check out OLIVE (it's a little more calm but oh so nice) and BREAK BEATS-ULTRA OBSCENE. You won't regret it!

I had only learned to appreciate this album as an afterthought than when it was first released. When I had first heard it, I was used to listening to some very straight-forward 4/4 house, techno and rave-influenced tracks. But it was only when I started discovering drum & bass and break beat styles did I start to look for this release. And when I finally listened to it, and seriously absorbed it, I realized it was none of those things. It had similarities and elements to bands that would be considered trip hop, but they had some nice, unexpectedly syncopated rhythms, very, VERY jazzy progressions, and Louise Rhodes' vocals were of a different style of vocalization than I was used to. These guys are in a group all by themselves and hold themselves up well. But I'm not gonna say that they're better or worse than Portishead, Mono, Morcheeba, Girl Eats Boy or any other similar band because they're JUST that...SIMILAR.

i was first introduced to lamb by a tvdoc, i was so impressed i bought fear of force(their second album) and was hooked from then on. it's now been 2 months after i bought their debut, and this is yet so much better, even more than i dared have hoped for. checkout "zero": this would be the most beautiful song i ever heard. just some guitars and strings and lou's fragile voice. quite beautiful. worth alone buying the album for and yet there are tracks like "gorecki" and "god bless" that make it a classic.. this a very powerful album indeed. get this if you like strongly songbased elektronic music (like bjork perhaps), but also if you your into listening to something you won't hear anywhere else (but from your very own cdplayer ;).

Do you know the feeling when you listen a CD in a store and you're instantly taken by it? You don't want to put it down, and you think you've found the best music ever. It was like that with Lamb's debut album. The wonderful thing is, it just gets better and better the more you listen to it. This is intelligent complex highly emotional music. The Lamb musicians know each other well and they know how to get the best out of each other's talents. This is a CD made with love.