Lamb

Lamb humanize drum and bass by adding a female voice, but don't expect Louise Rhodes' detached singing to soften their sound, only to make it more interesting. Her lonely wail is just another "vegetable" in a chunky soup of breaks, jazzy fragments, and jungle rhythms. A twist from d-n-b, a turn from trip-hop -- Lamb pegged a unique, avant-garde sound on this debut.

One thing that has not changed in the current electronic-dance revolution is the old
pop-music male/female division of labor. With some exceptions (Margaret Fiedler of Laika,
Riz Maslen of Neotropica, and a few others), too much electronica relies on the boys to
handle the heavy machinery and the girls to croon over the beats. Two new English groups
don't veer from this formula, but they do stretch the margins of this fruitful idiom... More >