"Rounds" too!!
― hounds heidegger (Leee), Sunday, 30 October 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
New single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxtsiON7dg
Backspace Rewind out 13 October 2014.
― Felt up by Adam Smith's invisible hand (Sanpaku), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:35 (nine years ago) link
Nice!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 21 September 2014 12:11 (nine years ago) link
Anyone heard the new album yet? I go back to the last album a lot. Hope this one is as good.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
Release date was pushed back to 3 November. Not entirely sure why so many albums this fall have had delays.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 13:58 (nine years ago) link
It's already on Spotify. Giving it a listen right now.
Yeah albums being delayed by a week or so seems to be a more recent development. Obviously long term delays have always happened but the pushing back like this only seemed to happen to singles really.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
Just put the early stuff back in my iPod this weekend. Haven't heard the 2011 album yet, will probably take me just as long to get around to the new one.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
Not really paid much attention to these guys ever but 'We Fall In Love' is great.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
new album is really fucking great
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Monday, 10 November 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Yup. One of the best of the year.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else besides Dan and I heard this? It's a stunner.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 22:41 (nine years ago) link
I need to pick them back up I guess, but I really disliked their third and fourth albums.
― khaleeesi (Leee), Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
I've heard it and really like it, maybe even more than the last album. I only started paying attention to them when I heard Butterfly Effect on the 2011 end of year nominations playlist. It was probably one of you that nominated them and got me into them.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:51 (nine years ago) link
Leee, the fifth and sixth albums are fantastic, much better than the fourth IMO
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
I think this one is really good.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:48 (nine years ago) link
1 > 2 > 6 > 5 > 3 > 4
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
And honestly, I'm not so sure about 2 > 6.
1 remains unbeatable, perhaps the finest reaction to D&B from any pop artist.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:22 (nine years ago) link
3 > 2 > 6 >5 > 1 >>>>>> 4
I never cared for the debut except for the singles.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Those singles are half the album and also fucking incredible
Also the meter nerd in me almost had an never ending orgasm the first time I heard "Lusty"
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
Which, surprisingly, isn't even a single.
― TTAGGGTTAGGG (Sanpaku), Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:59 (nine years ago) link
I didn't hear it until after Fear of Fours and it seemed so tentative in comparison. Still does.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:00 (nine years ago) link
I can't agree with that, especially after seeing them tour that first album and how hard those songs hit live.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:03 (nine years ago) link
Totally fair. I'm sure I'd feel similar if I heard the record and saw them at the time. But my experience changes how those songs work or don't work for me. Plus I never cared for dnb so even a pop version isn't my cup of tea.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 13 November 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
The debut is the everlasting hotness. "Lusty," "Gorecki," "Zero," "Merge," etc. etc.
― khaleeesi (Leee), Thursday, 13 November 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I need to get back on them, I just think I had a hard time accepting that they went so AOR/folk-pop in the middle of their discography (ok that probably doesn't describe What Sound?).
― khaleeesi (Leee), Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
Always kind of suspected that my writing these off as trip hop also rans may have been wide of the mark and this album strongly suggests that it was. amazing album.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 13 November 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
never got into the debut - not even Gorecki ever really did it for me - but this single is good. WIll ahve to check out the album
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 14 November 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
Heard the single and thought it was excellent.
Poised to splash big pounds on the vinyl - I should make the jump?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 14 November 2014 11:01 (nine years ago) link
I would say yes. I haven't only because there's currently no space in my place for a record player.
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 14 November 2014 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Just listened to the new album, quite nice indeed.
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Sunday, 23 November 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
just listened to the global communication mix of gorecki three times in a row. gonna play it again now.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 24 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Criminally underrated as fuck, particularly Fear of Fours.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
lou rhodes is a genuinely great singer
― nomar, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Oh, absolutely... and Barlow should be more recognised for his production work than he is, too!
― Turrican, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
This group is brilliant top to bottom
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:12 (eight years ago) link
I think they are to trip hop what Curve was to shoegaze, positioned as third wave wannabes or alsorans to such a degree that a lot of people either missed out or refused to recognize how great they were.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I guess there's more than a grain of truth in that, but at the same time I think that "trip hop" is a bit of an ill-fitting description for them. I'll concede that there's some traits, but I dunno... there's something about their music which often feels quite apart from that.
― Turrican, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I agree, just as Curve never aimed for the shimmering, dreamy beauty that is a hallmark of so much shoegaze and yet were categorized as such all the same. They were a lot more aggressive and rhythmically interesting, same with Lamb.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Lamb was dubbed trip-hop only due to their setup of keyb/programmer guy + female vocalist. Laika was similarly unfairly pigeonholed. I always thought of both in the context of other post-rock (in S. Reynold's original definition) bands like Disco Inferno, Bark Psychosis, Insides, Long Fin Killie/Bows (hell the Too Pure catalog). All those great 90s bands that were responding to the exhaustion of guitar rock and tentatively exploring outside the box while the weeklies were lauding regressive Britpop.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 5 November 2015 03:35 (eight years ago) link
I dunno - for me Lamb is definitely trip-hop and there's nothing wrong with that. Their last album slayed and I realy need to find more time to spend with it.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 5 November 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
tuomas and blueski are correct in their judgment that the K&D mix of "Trans Fatty Acid" owns like few remixes in history and everyone in the universe needs to listen to it. that song's been a part of my life for a decade and a half now; in this time, the same friend who turned me on to this mix was also responsible for my appreciation for Wong Kar-Wai. also he later allegedly faked his own death in order to drop off the internet more or less entirely, although since he may have been caught fakin' he might have needed to try harder.
my point is: the K&D Mix is really really good
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
K&D mix has none of the soured, paranoid stank of the original, so I'll hold with the original.
― :wq (Leee), Thursday, 5 November 2015 18:39 (eight years ago) link
I really, really love the awkward stutter-stompy stuff they did, like "Lusty" and "Cotton Wool".― admiral tub-a-lub (HI DERE), Monday, May 11, 2009 6:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― admiral tub-a-lub (HI DERE), Monday, May 11, 2009 6:47 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^ this, This, THIS!
The "awkward stutter-stompy" stuff and their use of meters other than 4/4 is a big part of the appeal of Lamb for me, although I love their more floatier, more "beautiful" tracks too. But man, those awkward beats.
― Turrican, Friday, 6 November 2015 22:14 (eight years ago) link
Come to think of it, Lamb and Laika were both equally predisposed toward odd time signatures. "Fear of Fours" indeed.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 6 November 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
'Lusty' is 101% fucking amazing.
― Turrican, Friday, 6 November 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
I love how Fear of Fours tried to actually avoid having a track 4 by using 7 seconds of the outro of 'B Line' (track 3) to make up track 4 on the CD, so the next song proper starts on track 5.
― Turrican, Friday, 6 November 2015 22:18 (eight years ago) link
Heh that's pretty good.
― brimstead, Saturday, 7 November 2015 01:11 (eight years ago) link
The middle part of 'Cotton Wool' where Lou sings in harmony with herself, before the thundering fucked-up beats kick back in = wonderful.
― Turrican, Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:43 (eight years ago) link
A claim to fame, I helped with the sound effects on the B-Line video years back and got to hang out with them for a day, they were lovely people.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 8 November 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Really!? Nice one!
I think I only saw two Lamb videos on TV back in the '90s, 'B-Line' was one of 'em and 'Cotton Wool' was the other, both once each. 'B-Line' was definitely the better of the two!
― Turrican, Sunday, 8 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link