Fear Of Fours - Lamb

Advantages: sublime music
Disadvantages: nuffink!

While there's always a place for boy bands and diva dollies, macho rock and riot girls, for lad anthems and ladies' night disco tracks, and for chauvinistic rap and bitchcore hip-hop, it has to be said that sometimes it's good to stop the sex wars. Sometimes, it's not just nice to hear the boys and girls working together – it's utterly inspiring. The dynamic between male and female, whether it's sexual or platonic, has been a driving force behind ...
...best art right across the spectrum – that sometimes it's easy to forget just how good it can be when XX and XY work together on equal terms. So it is with Andy Barlow and Louise Rhodes, who may refer to each other as 'Cosmic bro' and 'Spiritual sis' in the liner notes of their albums (or at least, when they're not having tiffs of the 'artistic friction' kind, as they are rumoured oft to do), but are collectively known as Lamb. While it's easy to ... Read review

Advantages: Fantastic anthology of their best work
Disadvantages: None; I just can't get enough of them!

...and textures to this track. The album continues with 'Gold' and the enchantingly timeless 'Gorecki' (As covered by Nicole Kidman in 'Moulin Rouge', shame she only sang 2 lines) and 'God Bless', all from their debut album. Continuing with four tracks from their second album, 'Fear of Fours', we are taken into Lamb's more interesting work. Here the beats are more unusual in 'Little Things', and 'B Line' is creepy and kooky (is that a real word?). Following are 'Lullaby' and 'Bonfire', which are just as entrancing. Although this was quite a 'technical' period in Lamb's music making, in the way that there are a lot of interesting sounds and beats, this music is still passion-fuelled and the lyrics, moving. In contrast to the first half of the album, we begin to enter the more typically beautiful era of Lamb, where the melodies are as gorgeours... Read review

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