The return of Lamb is like a bright and shining light that will dazzle you on November 24 at Lucerna Music Bar. It starts with a lone voice that\u2019s soon met by a wobbling lo-frequency bass note. The sung message is simple, offering a contrary message: \u201cSo much to say\/I\u2019m lost for words\u201d. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s intimate, like eavesdropping on private thoughts, until it opens out into a chorus that positively glows out of the speakers. It\u2019s like blinking your way into bright sunlight; walking from basement to beach in a split second, a match struck alight in darkness. <\/p>\n
The Secret Of Letting Go – Lamb\u2019s seventh album – is all about the space between sounds. At times sublime and celestial, at others a swirl like a desert sand storm the music offers a launch platform on which Lou Rhodes\u2019 superlunary voice can take flight. At times, the sound that Lou and musical partner Andy Barlow create is quietly evocative of sun-drenched horizons – contemplative and reflective, as on opener Phosphorus and the album\u2019s final track – One Hand Clapping – a divine piece of music with all the radiance of a high summer sunset. At others its itchy and anticipatory, pointing towards moments of ecstatic abandon, like on the album\u2019s first single – the brooding, building, boiling over Armageddon Waits and the dervish spinning, cyclonic Deep Delirium. And occasionally, it\u2019s a quake – a whomping bass tone that seems to move through your very bones as on the album\u2019s title track and Bulletproof, a track where the bottom end seems to be burrowing its way out of the track. <\/p>\n
Lamb\u2019s studio encounters have been sporadic since the duo – Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow – ended their post-millennium hiatus to record the album 5. The Secret Of Letting Go came together after a period of time that saw the band touring their classic self-titled 1996 debut album in full for the first time ever as well as Lou working on her forth solo album (theyesandeye) and Andy producing other artists. <\/p>\n
Lou: \u201cWhen new ideas that could grow into Lamb songs emerge from one of us, we send them between each other. Our solo work is a very different process from writing with Lamb; over the years we\u2019ve learned that Lamb songs only work if we bring together our most stripped-back ideas and work from there, leaving as much space for each other\u2019s input. It\u2019s a strange form of alchemy; throwing together roughly hewn rocks of ideas and watching them take shape with the sheer friction caused when the two of us pull those ideas between us. The first track – Illumina – came early on in the summer of 2016 and our next writing session was the tail-end of 2017 in Brighton followed by a block of time out in Goa early 2018. In effect that was the true beginning of the process of writing and a lot of the ideas flowed from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
This seems to be the mystery of Lamb. Go all the way to your friendship wherever you are in the world. You may create your best work so far.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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