LAMB Live in Concert (First Ever Australian Dates)

Manchester based duo, Louise Rhodes and Andy Barlow formed LAMB in 1994 with diametrically opposing aesthetics. When their self-titled debut arrived it unapologetically trashed the rulebook resulting in one of the most genuinely genre-bending dance albums of the nineties. With injections of jazz, classical, blues, techno and hip hop, Lamb fused smooth curves with angular edges, or heartbreak blues with cold-hearted electronica, giving it an intensely personal, highly emotional charge. The sweetly stuttering 'Cottonwool' and divine 'Gorecki' singles showed that Lamb could do much more than just make feet move quicker - it could make hearts beat faster, too.

Lamb's points of reference are strange but wonderful. Rhodes' delivery combines the traits of a torch singer, an R&B siren, and an acoustic singer/songwriter into a ravishing and complex vocal identity. Their music strives to defy categorization. Lamb's second album 'Fear Of Fours' followed in 1999 and brought out the kind of internal wrangle and heartache that can be the undoing of a band. But from this conflict came beauty. It was a texturally dense and often darkly intense record, lyrics of love and loss meet with untempered beats, drum and bass courts with jazz and lust to produce a form of "uture bebop".

Their third album 'What Sound', released late last year through Universal Music, is Lamb's most rounded and complete collection yet. The electric shock that was 'Fear Of Fours' has been replaced by an ecstatic buzz on 'What Sound'. This is music where conflicting forms battle and find a greater peace.

In Australia for the first time, don't miss Lamb's heart-stopping live shows:

The Enmore Theatre Sydney Tuesday 16 April
The Palace Melbourne Thursday 18 April
Astoria Perth Saturday 20 April

"This is innovative beauty served up on a modernist platter"
DJ Magazine

"Their combination of twitching electronics and Louise Rhodes impassioned lovestruck rapture has never sounded so bewitching" Jockey Slut

"'What Sound' is actually the sound of Lamb sussed and sorted and perfectly centred, hitting a flawless blend of fuck-off, baffled beats, intriguingly textured ambience and lush, soulful melodicism." Time Out
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