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| Released | 30 September 1996 | |||
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| Length | 65:14 | |||
| Label | Fontana | |||
| Producer | Lamb | |||
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Lamb is the debut studio album by English electronic music duo Lamb. It was released on 30 September 1996 by Fontana Records. [5]
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]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [9] |
| Almost Cool | 7.5/10 [10] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ [11] |
| The Guardian |  [12] |
| Launch | 60/100 [13] |
| Muzik | 4.5/5 [14] |
| NME | 6/10 [15] |
| Q | [16] |
| Rolling Stone | [17] |
| Rolling Stone Australia | [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]
All tracks are written by Andy Barlow and Lou Rhodes
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Trans Fatty Acid" (Kruder & Dorfmeister remix) | 9:00 |
| 13. | "Górecki" (Global Communication mix) | 9:46 |
| Total length: | 84:00 | |
Notes
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [21]
Lamb
Additional musicians
Production
Design
| Chart (1996) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums (OCC) [22] | 109 |
| UK Dance Albums (OCC) [23] | 7 |
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