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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
You'll thank me for making you buy this album!
Few enough record collections are graced with this mid 90s masterpiece and that's a great pity. Lamb are the nexus where jazz, classical and Drum'n'bass meet. This is their debut and there isn't another album quite like it. From the poignant and innovative cello on Zero to the seemingly orchestral sweep of the Gorecki this album will wrench you away from banality and...
Published on 25 Feb 2003 by Shane Dempsey
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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
I really want to like this
i grew up on jungle / drum n bass, now listen to mainly jazz and instrumental hip hop, with a spattering of anti-folk after a few beers. all things ninja and jazz fudge are my main listening pleasure. i really wanted to like this, I was hoping for the vibe of morcheeba fuzed with harsher breakbeats and to be honest, that isnt far off. i guess either it or i am a bit...
Published on 27 Jul 2004
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
You'll thank me for making you buy this album!, 25 Feb 2003
Few enough record collections are graced with this mid 90s masterpiece and that's a great pity. Lamb are the nexus where jazz, classical and Drum'n'bass meet. This is their debut and there isn't another album quite like it. From the poignant and innovative cello on Zero to the seemingly orchestral sweep of the Gorecki this album will wrench you away from banality and force you to listen in childlike wonder. The collage of sounds drummed up (pardon the pun) by producer Andy Barlow is stunning, pure genius in places. Combine that with the rich, sexy and painfully earnest voice of Louise Rhodes and you're in sonic heaven. Intimate music created by music lovers for music lovers. This is the kind of record you'll bore your friends to tears talking about. Don't worry, however, as they'll return the favour just like mine did.
This band deserves your attention and this album is priceless.
Buy it!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Sheer listening bliss from start to end., 2 Nov 1999
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Lamb's debut album is incrediable. A combination of daring rhythms, juxtaposed with melodies from across the musical spectrum, jazz, dance, ballad drum n' bass. Haunting vocals merge with wide vibrant strings, syncopated beats and engaging lyrics ... you're left feeling exhausted, enthralled and entirely entertained. I loved it all, from the fat vibes of "transfattyacid" to my song of the millennium Gorecki. The words, the backing, the passion, the endless nuances that this song brings just being alone ... in the dark ... and a universe that seems to grow around you ... it's one song I will never grow bored of. Sheer listening pleasure. Watch out for the hidden bonus track after "Feela", a excellent remix of track three's "cotton wool".
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
This is the cd you have been looking for, 28 Dec 2001
I bought this albumn after hearing 'Gorecki' on Napster, this song is possibbly the greatest. You need to listen to the whole song to appreciate it rather than just the 30 second sample. Possible comparisons could be made to the classic 'unfinished sympathy' but in my personal opinion it doesn't compete. 'Gorecki' is one of those songs that whenever you hear, it whatever you are doing you have to stop. This song commands your full attention and it rewards you with absolute unadulterated, pure, glorious beauty. This is just one song on the albumn, other tracks such as 'cotton wool' and 'trans fatty acid' are fantastic. Most music partnernships will never produce one track to eqaul any on this album let alone a whole cd of this qaulity. You have to buy this albumn, if you haven't heard of Lamb this will redefine your music collection.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
A new twist on the trip-hop theme, 21 Oct 2000
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Just when it seemed that trip-hop had settled down, Lamb came along and changed everything. The Massive Attack/Portishead sound had fixed this genre firmly in its place; or so we thought. From the opening vibrophone pulses of 'lusty', to the thundering d&b crashes and angry guitar on 'cottonwool', to the inspired, haunting cello on 'zero', this truly is one hell of an album. A brilliant mix of everything meaninfull and lush in today's music. Drum&Bass has been saved from turning into Trance, and has found a new purpose; providing backdrops to haunting, winty vocals. An excellent album!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
One of the greatest pieces of music ever written !, 3 Aug 2000
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Can't a CD get more than 5 stars? This album is beyond rating! Beautiful, moving and shocking, it captures all your senses with it's melancholic power, just like any immortal piece of art. "Gorecki" is clearly a candidate for the most beautiful song ever written; "Godbless" and "Cotton Wool" take you to a haunting bad trip ride so intense, you start looking paranoically over your shoulder; "Zero" and "Feela", with their elegant mellow simplicity, are verging on the baroque gloom; "Transfatty Acid" and "Gold" (a personal favourite) are as abstract and psychedelic as music gets...Delicate and powerful, depressing and uplifting at one, this is one album you'll be listening to until you die. A brilliant, breathtaking masterpiece.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Can CD's wear out?, 30 Jun 2000
If so I'll need a new copy soon. It hasn't been off my playlist for the year I've owned it.I just love Louise Rhodes voice. So unique. Add in the mix of drum 'n' bass and melancholy grooves and hey presto my album of all time. Depending on how your love life is going, Gorecki has to be the happiest song ever written or the ultimate tear jerker. I've experienced both sides of the coin. Just buy it, along with follow up Fear of Fours. If you regret it you're tone deaf.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Travesty, 30 Mar 2007
After giving my other copy to a good friend I urgently got online to replace this album. I was curious however to see what people thought of the album even though I am definitely re-buying it. I was amazed or should I say dismayed to see a good few people giving this album 1 star...what?!? In my opinion Lamb are (were)an amazing duo, beats were tight and however you see the lyrics which I don't think are up for question, Lou Rhodes voice is simple superior to most female vocalists out there, anyone who has heard this lady sing live will know that her talent is unmistakable. Lamb is alternative drum and bass- if you mixed portishead with the likes of Ronnie Size then this is what you get. Well deserved 5 star quality, try it and see...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
An Impeccable Debut, 29 Sep 2003
If you've never heard of the UK-based band LAMB before, you've missed out on what is possibly one of the most unusual and most contradictory band formats in recent history: Louise Rhodes, a zen-influenced vocalist with a jazz/folk background, opposite Andy Barlow, a Drum'n'bass-influenced DJ also known as 'The Hipoptimist'. Their wildly conflicting personal preferences in style are nowhere more apparent than here in their first album. Inluding influences from Henryk Gorecki's "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs", and from personal experience (Zero describes Lou's reaction to miscarriage), their style is sufficiently distinctive for many die-hard fans to be hard-pressed to give them a succinct description - although the moniker Trip-Hop, linking them to Kosheen and Portishead etc., is the one most most often used; other parallels might include Sugizo and Iona. Undoubtedly the best track on the album is "Gorecki", an intensely passionate ballad whose lyrics were used as part of Nicole Kidman's 'If I Should Die' poem towards the end of "Moulin Rouge". An essential for any fan of music that expands boundaries.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
"I cried tears", says emotional reviewer, 15 Feb 2003
By A Customer
Forget all the music genre stuff you read about jazz, trip-hop and drum-n-bass. This is a record of rare substance and beauty. A singer who must have wrung herself dry of emotion, pouring out her heart at once with power and edgy vulnerability. She combines at times with hard, harsh rhythms, at times with ambient layers, at times with minimalist acoustic hints, to create something which leaves you breathless. A voice as luscious as Liz Frasers, as acrobatic as Bjorks, but with more variety, adding its own mark of simplicity, fragility and soul. The record has some experimental flaws - once or twice Barlow's backing and production get a little to close to the selfconsciously "interesting" - but it is rich in ideas and the more endearing for it. It is a stunning debut, beautiful and inspiring. Within the first minute, the way she sings "Only you can soothe me.." to those chords will have the hair on the back of your neck on end.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
If you like, mad stuff listen to this!, 19 May 2000
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WOW, WOW, WOW! I'm quite new to Lamb, i bought Fear of Fours, late last year, and that is amazing! . I heard 'god bless' and 'cotton wool' on MTV, and then i had to get the debut album, i've only listened to it a few times right through, but it is absolutley outstanding! especially gorecki, and if you like cottton wool, like me! watch out for the hidden track thing at the end of feela, it plays at about 9mins and that is off the planet! happy lisetening, off to write to Lamb myself and tell them how impressed i am!
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