Released 17 May 1999 Artist Lamb Label Mercury Records | Fear of Fours
(1999) What Sound
(2001) Release date 17 May 1999 | |
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Genres Trip hop, Drum and bass, Oldschool jungle Similar Lamb albums, Trip hop albums |
Lamb soft mistake
Fear of Fours is the title of Lamb's 1999 album. It was a moderate success, reaching UK #37, the band's only UK Top 40 album entry to date.
Contents
- Lamb soft mistake
- Lamb here fear of fours
- Track listing
- Unusual additions and time signatures in the album
- Songs
- References
Lamb here fear of fours
Track listing
- "Soft Mistake" – 3:15
- "Little Things" – 3:18
- "B Line" – 2:51
- [untitled] – 0:07
- "All in Your Hands" – 4:38
- "Less Than Two" – 1:18
- "Bonfire" – 4:23
- "Ear Parcel" – 7:54
- "Softly" – 3:55
- "Here" – 3:22
- "Fly" – 5:14
- "Alien" – 4:08
- "Five" – 5:46
- "Lullaby" – 2:56
Unusual additions and time signatures in the album
The fourth track is not included on the album's track listing. It is a single struck chord which effectively ends the song "B Line" preceding it. This deliberate omission is a nod to the album's title, whose sentiment is revealed in a deeper level throughout the album: unusual time signatures. "Soft Mistake" is in 10/8. "B Line" is driven by a prominent bass line in 6/8, followed by the single note track 4. "Less Than Two" is in 12/8, backed by a repeating twelve beat phrase "needing you wanting you loving you holding you", and "Softly" is in 6/8. "Alien" continues in 12/8, although the rhythms are at times ambiguous. "Five", the most intricate yet, is in 5/8,5/8,5/8,5/8,5/8,6/8,5/8,6/8, which could also be written as 10/8,10/8,11/8,11/8. "Lullaby" rounds off the album in a slow, lazy 3/4 time. "Little Things" has a rather complex rhythmic pattern, which nevertheless converges to 4/4, or a multiple, depending on notation.
However some of the tracks are more conventional: "All In Your Hands", "Bonfire", "Ear Parcel", "Fly" all have time signatures which are at least divisible by 2 or 4, even though they may not be written as 4/4 per se. "Here" again has a 4/4 structure to it, though the bass plays rhythms which stress this as 3+3+2/8.
Songs
1Soft Mistake3:19
2Little Things3:21
3B Line2:49