Artist
Lamb
Lamb is a trip hop artist from Manchester, England formed in 1996. 14 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Trip Hop · Manchester, England · Best trip hop albums
- 14
- Releases
- 1996–2020
- Active years
- 1996
- Formed
Artist
Lamb is a trip hop artist from Manchester, England formed in 1996. 14 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Trip Hop · Manchester, England · Best trip hop albums
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2001 · 10 tracks
Lamb is an electronic music duo from Manchester, England, whose music is influenced by trip hop and drum and bass. The duo consists of producer Andy Barlow, who also produces under the pseudonym Hipoptimist, and singer-songwriter Lou Rhodes. They achieved commercial success with two hit singles "Górecki" and "Gabriel". Lamb's core members were Barlow and Rhodes, although the band subsequently expanded to include bassist Jon Thorne, Icelandic guitarist Oddur Mar Runnarson, and Danish drummer Nikolaj Bjerre. London-based string trio Chi 2 Strings and trumpet player Kevin Davy were frequent guest musicians. They released their first album, the self-titled Lamb in September 1996, and followed this up with another three albums and a cache of singles over the next eight years, culminating in the release of a greatest hits album, Best Kept Secrets, in June 2004. While they seemed destined for stardom, it seemed to evade them and during the early 2000s they lost momentum and played live only sporadically. Still, a 2004 tour produced memorable shows, according to the British press. Lamb performed what was billed as their final live appearance at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in September 2004 a…
