Lamb (album)

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Lamb
Cover-lamb.jpg
Studio album by
Lamb
Released30 September 1996 (1996-09-30)
Studio
Genre
Length65:14
Label Fontana
Producer Lamb
Lamb chronology
Lamb
(1996)		 Fear of Fours
(1999)
Singles from Lamb
  1. "Cotton Wool"
    Released: 1 January 1996 [1]
  2. "Gold"
    Released: 25 March 1996 [2]
  3. "God Bless"
    Released: 28 October 1996 [3]
  4. "Górecki"
    Released: 17 March 1997 [4]

Lamb is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Lamb. It was released on 30 September 1996 by Fontana Records. [5]

Contents

In the United States, Lamb was released in 1997 and distributed by Fontana's parent label Mercury Records. [6] [7] The album was reissued on LP by Music on Vinyl on 10 March 2014. [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [9]
Almost Cool7.5/10 [10]
Entertainment Weekly B+ [11]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Launch 60/100 [13]
Muzik 4.5/5 [14]
NME 6/10 [15]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [17]
Rolling Stone Australia Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [18]

In Melody Maker , Sharon O'Connell lauded Lamb's fusion of the "kinetics" of drum and bass with "the sensuality of soul" on Lamb, describing the album's musical style as a "sumptuously organic" take on drum and bass incorporating varied instrumentation and the "gorgeous, haunted voice" of lead singer Lou Rhodes. [19] Martin James of Muzik , noting Rhodes's folk music lineage and her bandmate Andy Barlow's roots in "the breakbeat tradition", highlighted the duo's juxtaposition of "genres, sonics and emotions" throughout Lamb. [14] The Guardian 's Dan Glaister credited Rhodes's "fragile vocals" for giving the music "an original context", [12] while Matt Diehl commented in Entertainment Weekly that she "shows how emotionally satisfying techno can be." [11] Dele Fadele was more lukewarm towards the record in NME , finding it derivative of "Portishead's version of trip-hop" while conceding that Lamb have a "distinct identity that sneaks out through the pores of the whole". [15]

AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised Lamb in retrospect as "one of the more hypnotic byproducts of trip-hop", observing a "classy, detached, and cool" approach to the genre distinguishing the album "from the avant-garde sensibilities of Tricky and the haunted romanticism of Portishead, or even the pop leanings of Sneaker Pimps and the soul-inflected grooves of Morcheeba." [9] In 2021, Slant Magazine listed Lamb as the tenth-best trip hop album of all time, with staff writer Sal Cinquemani calling it "nervy, innovative, and complex—boasting shifting time signatures, stuttering machine-gun beats, and eccentric vocal turns by singer Lou Rhodes, who stretches her uniquely colorful voice over producer Andy Barlow's tight, jazzy arrangements." [20]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Andy Barlow and Lou Rhodes.

No.TitleLength
1."Lusty"4:09
2."God Bless"5:54
3."Cotton Wool"5:07
4."Trans Fatty Acid"7:37
5."Zero"5:31
6."Merge"5:44
7."Gold"5:40
8."Closer"3:51
9."Górecki"6:30
10."Feela"6:44
11."Cotton Wool" (Fila Brazillia mix)8:27
Total length:65:14
2014 reissue bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
12."Trans Fatty Acid" (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix)9:00
13."Górecki" (Global Communication mix)9:46
Total length:84:00

Notes

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [21]

Lamb

Additional musicians

Production

Design

  • Karen Lamond – photography
  • Rick Myers – design

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 109
UK Dance Albums (OCC) [23] 7

References

  1. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 23 December 1995. p. 32. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 23 March 1996. p. 31. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 26 October 1996. p. 29. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "New Releases: Singles" (PDF). Music Week . 15 March 1997. p. 28. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "New Releases: Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 28 September 1996. pp. 56–57. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  6. ↑ Darling, Cary (21 July 1997). "Lamb's debut has a leg to stand on". The Record .
  7. ↑ Lamb (liner notes). Lamb. Mercury Records / Fontana Records. 1997. 314 532 968-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ↑ "Lamb – Lamb". Music on Vinyl. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  9. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Lamb – Lamb". AllMusic . Retrieved 4 September 2011.
  10. ↑ Coleman, Aaron. "Lamb – Self-Titled". Almost Cool. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  11. 1 2 Diehl, Matt (16 May 1997). "Lamb". Entertainment Weekly . Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  12. 1 2 Glaister, Dan (4 October 1996). "Lamb: Lamb (Fontana Records)". The Guardian .
  13. ↑ Gulla, Bob. "Lamb". Launch . Archived from the original on 2 June 2002. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  14. 1 2 James, Martin (November 1996). "Lamb: Lamb" (PDF). Muzik . No. 18. p. 127. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  15. 1 2 Fadele, Dele (12 October 1996). "Lamb: Lamb". NME .
  16. ↑ Aston, Martin (December 1996). "Lamb: Lamb". Q . No. 123. pp. 136–138.
  17. ↑ Micallef, Ken (6 March 1997). "Lamb: Lamb". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on 29 March 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  18. ↑ Zoric, Lauren. "Lamb – Lamb (Fontana/Mercury)". Rolling Stone Australia . Archived from the original on 1 December 1998. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  19. ↑ O'Connell, Sharon (7 September 1996). "Drum'n'Baaas". Melody Maker . p. 42.
  20. ↑ "The 20 Best Trip-Hop Albums of All Time". Slant Magazine . 23 April 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  21. ↑ Lamb (liner notes). Lamb. Fontana Records. 1996. 532 968-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  22. ↑ "Chart Log UK: DJ Steve L. – LZ Love". Zobbel.de. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  23. ↑ "Dance Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 12 October 1996. p. 21. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
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