‘Lambs Eat Ivy’s’ debut repetitive, goofy, abnormal By John Payne Senior Reporter_ Lambs Eat Ivy “Lamby Cake” Merkin Records “Lamby Cake” is the debut re lease from the Baltimore-based Lambs Eat Ivy, but an apt subtitle may have been “As Goofy as They Want to Be.” The album cover alone is enough to get you wonder ing: “Are these guys for real?” Adorned in grass skirts and hair bows, the trio of Nancy Andrews, Emma Downing and Michael Wil lis certainly looks like a strange lot. Musically, these guys have scrapped the norm in every way. There’s very little bass on “Lamby Cake,” and virtually no percus sion. In their place are murky smatterings of washboard, violin and banjo. Not exactly rock ‘n’ roll staples, but then again, the Lambs aren’t your run-of-ihe- mill band. The brief instances of elec tric guitar sound more like sitars in need of a tuning. Their overall sound is a hill billy folk that borders on psyche delia. The vocal harmonics are purposefully listless, which tend to push “Lamby Cake” further into the doldrums. After a while, you get the feel ing that Lambs Eat Ivy just went into the studio to experiment. You keep waiting for them to get down to business, but they never do. It’s kind of like listening to a band warm up all night. Downing writes most of the tunes, which deal predominantly with God, snakes, childbirth and more snakes. She handles lead vocals as well, with a trippy twang that pierces the inner ear 1 ike Grace Slick on helium. Chaos is also a big theme on the Lambs’ agenda: “Shiva is god of destruction/ Shiva world annihi late/ Shiva sits amidst the corpses/ Shiva wears the living snakes.” That kind of bizarre imagery on “Lamby Cake" is certainly dis turbing at times, and Downing’s gothic poems do grab your atten tion: “Reptile eyes glisten and shine/ Reptile brain waits evolution.” But for a band that trys so hard to break new ground, this effort is as repetitive as they come. The banjos and violins are fun at first, but the Lambs shouldn’t have expected the novelty to carry the entire LF. Add to that Downing’s singing, which never sounds completly serious, and you’ve got an album that’s just a little too silly for its own good. And of course, one can take the references to decaying corpses and serpents only so many times before enough becomes enough. THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON |—-735S=q T __ f _?__ r ed'3 jackhammer SCHOoij._ L_ * ai i-1 — "C'mon! Keep those stomachs over the handle! 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