Third album from Louise Rhodes and Andy Barlow, now relocated to London
Despite commercial success eluding them, Lamb remain the unacknowledged masters of the studio beat and brooding atmospherica. Especially here. Out goes skittering, jazzy drum'n'bass, in comes soft sequencer patterns, William Orbit-style textures and chiming Krautonica.
On their previous album,
Fear Of Fours, Lamb were clogging and overwrought, but "This Could Be Heaven", "Just Is", and "Small" flicker with heart-crushing beauty. With Louise Rhodes' rapturous tonsils and its post-coital heartbeat,
What Sound is closer to the Cocteau Twins'
Heaven Or Las Vegas than it is to Moloko. In a word: autumnal.
rated: * * * * (out of 5)
review: Neil Davenport
nicked from 'Uncut', dated November 2001
