Manchester electronic duo Lamb performed at the Moscow Glavclub

The trip-hop band, which played on the Moscow stage for the first time three years ago, opened their performance with the song “Another Language” from their latest album. Later, there was a choral performance of the shamanic “Gorecki” and “My angel Gabriel”, thanks to which almost everyone is familiar with the group’s work.

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Lamb's first appearance on the Moscow stage took place in 2011, and then the organizers complained that they did not expect a full house, but it just happened. This time, the mistakes were taken into account - the relative intimacy of the “16 tons” club was replaced by the urbanism of the Ordzhonikidze plant, where the “Glavclub” is now located. The sound system in this room still leaves a lot to be desired, and while the dance floor is more or less balanced, other areas have a "listen to the sound from the bucket, buddy" kind of thing going on. This feature did not have the best effect on the warm-up, for which the young St. Petersburg team Cats Park was responsible. Lyrics in English, downtempo, melancholic female vocals and a guitarist with the appearance of a young Jim Morisson - a slightly sweet set that claims to be the favorite of girl bloggers.

The grown-up trip-hop heroes of the second wave Lamb, keeping in mind that the first is the “big triad” of Massive Attack, Tricky and Portishead, opened their performance with the composition “Another Language” from the band’s last album, released in 2011 and marking the band’s reunion after the band’s demise. activities in 2004. Having been busy with solo projects, sound producer, DJ and keyboardist Andrew Barlow and vocalist Lou Rhodes realized that they had more fun together - they radiated ecstatic happiness on stage. Energetic Andrew, with his full-blown sexuality, continually climbed onto the side with the manners of an experienced techno-rave regular and threatened to embark on stage diving to the squeals of fans, while the tremulous nymph Lou created space with her honeyed voice. Her seductive vocals are a hypnotic mixture of Björk and Nelly Fortado, only without the brilliant foolishness of the first and the commercial touch of the second, framed by the electronic gadgets of techno, jungle and Andrew's complex trajectories of drum & base rhythms interspersed with acid jazz, for which real electronic music was responsible double bass in the hands of John Thorne.

There was also a choral performance of the shamanic “Gorecki” and “My angel Gabriel” - hits that everyone knows thanks to radio rotation, but in a harsher interpretation compared to the recording. The languid music of a dying metropolis was replaced by peppy electronics with psychedelic kicks, and the musicians began to fight on stage like powerful beasts, without losing a drop of charm. When Lou picked up the drumsticks and started hammering on the bongos, it looked nothing less than a call for world revolution, the message was so freedom-loving. This music is definitely not for girls in mink coats and their pot-bellied gentlemen, no, this is the music of the hunger games, lean, young and strong fighters, in whose veins rebellious blood flows. The musicians gave rock, as they say, and such that in the finale the bass turned out the diaphragm.

Elena Kravtsun

Lamb performed in Moscow