Lamb - Between Darkness & Wonder

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A new Lamb album out in the UK. How'd you Brits like it?

― Leee Smith (Leee), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 05:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the single (Wonder) but haven't heard the rest of it. i suspect it's pleasant but not particularly exciting tho. should be seeing them at Brixton soon (re-scheduled gig from their cancelled Apollo show)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

not a brit, but it is clearly their most booooooooooring effort so far. whenever one of them is too much in charge, the result is flawed. on 'fear of fours' it was andy barlow who was allowed to throw samples and programming around the room like a madman. this time it's the poetic elvery of lou rhodes that's got the better of the band. i think that their debut and 'what sound?' are their greatest records. they're balanced.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the only one of theirs I've heard (I only bought it on a whim of my partner's) and I've only listened to it once or twice so far - it's OK but can't say I'm likely to be ordering their entire back catalogue any time soon or anything.

Sorry, that doesn't actually help much, does it?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of it is bloody gorgeous. And "Sun" is ace. But really I'd put it on a par with "What Sound", which I've never rated as highly as the first two.

― j0e (j0e), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay Kid OTM - I've not yet heard a simpler or more accurate description of what happens to the Lamb creative process when the balance is lost. Not hear the new album yet, but I have low hopes having heard the wishy-washy "Wonder" single. Shame, Goldfrapp have well and truly nicked their (and lots of other bands') thunder in the last 12 months.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It was released in the whole of Europe, not just the UK. I loved the their first album, the second one was OK, the third was rather tedious and this new one I'd like to describe in three words: self-help muzak. Urgh.

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU PEOPLE ARE ALL MENTALISTS!!!! "B-Line" alone makes _Fear Of Fours_ one of the best albums to come out that year! (I have not heard the new one yet but am afraid that it will sound more like _What Sound_ than the other two.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Love the first two albums to death ("Gorecki" still makes me go all wobbly) but "What Sound" was very, very dull indeed. If the new one is anything like it I won't be bothering. Shame.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan so OTM, the first half of Fear of Fours is utterly sublime. I'm not listening to the rest of yall! ;)

― Leee Smith (Leee), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite a lot of the second half of Fear Of Fours is good too.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 1 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the new album quite a lot - quite gorgeous. It's easily their best from a melodic/harmonic point of view. Less hard-hitting/inventive rhythmically than earlier stuff. I guess it depends what you like the earlier stuff for - I've always found their use of beats clever and inventive but not satisfyingly assimilated into the rest of the music, so I think this is their most consistently likeable album. But I'd have expected that to be a minority view round ILM.

― ArfArf, Thursday, 1 January 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It's out in Canada too, btw. Yeah, the new one is very much like What Sound. The first album is still my favourite, for the gorgeous double-bass sound; they've gone father away with each album, which is sad. I haven't listened to the new one that much, though, so my thoughts my change. Mind, I've never listened to What Sound very much at all.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 2 January 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

"Softly"! "Bonfire"! "Ear Parcel"! "Alien"! "Little Things"!

_Fear of Fours_ murders like a deranged ganster on angel dust.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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