Best Kept Secrets

Lamb

Lamb / Best Kept Secrets
Format: CD Album
Released: Tue 13 Jul 2004
Catalogue Number: KOC9601.2

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Description:
Recording information: 1996 - 2004.

Lamb got tagged as trip-hop when its first album came out in 1997, but as the early songs on this compilation attest, the Manchester duo was actually closer to drum-and-bass or jazz-inspired jungle than the more dub-blunted beats of contemporaries Tricky, Massive Attack, and Portishead. Defined by the go-for-broke vocals of Louise Rhodes and the icicles-down-the-spine electric stand-up bass of Andrew Barlow, Lamb is really in its own world.

"Cotton Wool" features almost abstract jungle-beat sputtering, while "Gorecki" brings in sweeping synths, piano, and tablas to lift Rhodes's vocals towards a transcendent spiritual rush (a la peak Moby). As this disc moves chronologically through Lamb's catalogue, one finds the balance slowly swinging away from tingly drum-and-bass freak-outs ("Little Things" and "B Line") towards more string-infused balladry ("Bonfire" and "Lullaby"). By the time BEST KEPT SECRETS gets to "Gabriel" and "Stronger," Lamb's sound has grown smooth and seductive enough to be ready for late-night FM radio, while losing none of its underground trip-hop edge.

Details:

  • Discs: 1

Track Listing:

1.  Cottonwool
2.  God Bless
3.  Gold
4.  Gorecki
5.  Little Things
6.  B Line
7.  Lullaby
8.  Bonfire
9.  Heaven
10.  One
11.  Gabriel
12.  Angelica
13.  Til the Clouds Clear
14.  Wonder
15.  Please
16.  Stronger

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