- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Entertainment WeeklyThey remain beautifully true to form. [Listen 2 This supplement, Feb 2004, p.16]
-
Q MagazinePrevious albums threatened to impress but always came with bits missing. This is the finished article. [Dec 2003, p.130]
-
MojoLamb offer the perfect antidote to all manner of vapid pop-cultural vomitus without sounding pretentious or preachy. [Dec 2003, p.118]
-
Sometimes life-affirming, sometimes unsettling, but always a thing of great beauty.
-
Alternating from quietly meditative numbers to aggressive drum ‘n’ bass backdrops, Between Darkness And Wonder treads carefully between insight and superficiality, but ultimately ends up... closer to the former.
-
Given Lamb's heady back catalogue, some may dismiss this album as digestible trip-pop free of synthetic intricacies and sonic meanderings.... [But] it's the first to harness 100% of their talent as a band.
-
UncutCasts them as confident modern classicists. [Dec 2003, p.126]
-
Andy Barlow's productions have been defanged; no longer surprising and innovative, they exist as merely proper frameworks for the songs.
-
UrbThe fractious tension producer [Barlow] normally whips up to counter [Rhodes] is almost completely absent, thus allowing the run of tracks to discreetly slide off into the background. [Mar 2004, p.110]
-
All the spiky edges have been worn away.
-
With an approach that seems so clinical, the album sounds cold and soulless -- and, well, boring.
-
The beats are intricate but ineffectual, the songwriting is thin and every song is enveloped in a suffocating orchestral shroud.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 4 out of 4
-
Mixed: 0 out of 4
-
Negative: 0 out of 4
-
auriussAug 11, 2004best album of LAMB
-
BettyBApr 5, 2004Give it two days of background listening and all the pretty comments listed above will instantly disolve...
-
TheOmenFeb 25, 2004