Lamb - The Secret of Letting Go (Deluxe) (2020) [Official Digital Download]

Quite apart from the regular stresses of their complex working relationship, Barlow brought with him habits adopted while working on U2’s overdue 2017 collection, Songs Of Experience, something which would dull anyone’s edge. It’s impressive, then, to report that there’s little sign of any rancour here.

It’s Rhodes who opens the album, her solitary voice on Phosphorus swiftly bathed in iridescent synths as she asks “Can a whisper still be heard?” It can, and her sensitivity demands attention, as it does, too, on the regal Imperial Measures, in which, accompanied by a muted piano, she’s slowly immersed by strings as tremulous as her breathy, tender delivery.

Furthermore, the duo ensure we’re left afterwards with this impression of serenity by concluding with the soft caress of The Silence In Between, a mournful, inviting, violin-drenched elegy which will appeal to anyone drawn towards the so-called New Classical movement, and One Hand Clapping, whose echoing elegance is barely disturbed by its quietly percussive tapping and distorted keyboard line.

TRACKLIST

1. Lamb - Phosphorous
2. Lamb - Moonshine
3. Lamb - Armageddon Waits
4. Lamb - Bulletproof
5. Lamb - The Secret of Letting Go
6. Lamb - Imperial Measures
7. Lamb - The Other Shore
8. Lamb - Deep Delirium
9. Lamb - Illumina
10. Lamb - The Silence in Between
11. Lamb - One Hand Clapping
12. Lamb - Imperial Measures (Acoustic)
13. Lamb - The Silence in Between (Acoustic)
14. Lamb - The Other Shore (Acoustic)



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