Lamb manages to sound at once both more and less organic than their trip hop peers. With the exception of Portishead, they use quite a bit more live instrumentation - principally brass and strings, including a substantial amount of tasty upright bass work - which reminds you that though there's a lot of electronic stuff going on, this is music actually performed by flesh and blood people. Tempering that are the rollickingly aggressive drum n bass beats flailing in front of an otherwise swooning horn or swooping string bit. Throw in lead vocalist L.Rhodes's steely voice, and the end result wander somewhere between smoky jazz and gravely agitated unease.

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