Having been locked up from February of ‘95 – May of ‘97 meant that I’d missed an inordinate amount of music releases, and I can still recall my many fervent footsteps throughout the mall to get to a Camelot music store (remember those…), more than ready to make up for some lost time. I actually corralled a sales associate and told them something like, “I’ve been away for a couple of years and need to get caught up”, after which I proceeded to list off a laundry-list of band’s I loved, both for updates & to garner suggestions of new musicians I might dig. This LP, by Manchester duo Lamb, got purchased in that first chunk of new tunes, suggested on the weight of my professed love for Portishead; the vocal stylings of Louise Rhodes are the main element that links the two crews up, but the beats in Lamb come across a lot tougher & closer to breakbeats than trip-hop. Good looking out music store dude!
