Lamb

   
Artist: Lamb

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   Electronic
   Trip-Hop
   Experimental
   Electronic
   Trip-Hop
   

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Discography:


   
 Remixes

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 Best Kept Secrets: The Best Of Lamb 1996-2004

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 16


   
 Best Kept Secrets

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Between Darkness and Wonder

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 11


   
 Sweet

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


   
 All In Their Hands

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 What Sound

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Fear Of Fours

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 14


   
 Lamb

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10

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Mancunian downtempo/drum'n'bass span Lamb were one of the start groups to append a lyrics-based singer to firmly jungle-based productions. Unlike other vocal-based groups (such as Everything But the Girl and the Sneaker Pimps) world Health Organization spattered in rolling breaks as a quiet musical accompaniment to a clearly dominant vocal lead, Lamb dwelled in cheeky musical contrasts and, at times, contradictions that made their songs as musically complex and explorative as they are vocally catchy. Formed in 1994 by producer Andrew Barlow and vocalizer Louise Rhodes (the former an in-house technologist for So What management, the latter a daughter of troubadour parents and a budding songstress), Lamb nailed a sign on with Mercury underling Fontana virtually square out of the gate.


The group's career card, the "Cotton Wool" unmarried, already showed field-leaders such as Gerald Simpson and Fila Brazillia were on their side (each contributed a remix). But if anything it was the untouched rubric cart track that illustrated Lamb's committedness to holding the music interesting (the racecourse rows along on a compact bass fiddle sample distribution and absolutely brutalizing drum sequences) spell filling it tabu with a big venus's curse of melodiousness. An additional single ("Gold") followed, with Lamb's self-titled debut released in the fall of 1996 to widespread hail. Like the premature singles, much of Lamb explores song-oriented deployments of jungle, merely the record album too adds elements of downtempo and ambient-ish electro-jazz as well. Rhodes went on to lend her vocals to Sheffield legends 808 State's Don Solaris LP (on the track "Azura"), and the success of Lamb's debut likewise brought a fair amount of money of remix act their way. The geminate likewise added touring to their repertory (Lamb's outlet was followed by a European tour with labelmates Galliano), compounding their electronics-heavy productions with live instrumentalists. Second album Dread of Fours appeared in 1999, and consolidated the band's invoke with forward-thinking electronica listeners. Another inventive record, What Sound, landed in 2001, although American audiences were strained to wait two years to try it in a softly released version on Koch. Between Darkness and Wonder followed in 2003, and one year by and by Barlow helmed a intensity in the chillout mixtape series Back to Mine.