‘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.
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“Prison” give Reynolds opportu
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direction
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8 Tropical cactus
n They fail to pass
the bar
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14 Lists of things to
be done
16 Part of T G I F
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baron
18 "Angela-,'
1928 song
20 Existence
Comb form
22 Bias
23 African nut tree
24 Dorothy Gale, to
Em
26 Amatol
ingredient
27 More dreadful
28 Shrimplike
crustaceans
30 Plastered
32 -Speed
wagon (rock
group)
33 Song in "A
Chorus Line”
34 Cicada sounds
37 Stiffen
40 Certain rural
deities
41 Orphan Annie's
Oriental friend
43 Ultimate goal
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
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composer 1897
46 A Cy Young Award
winner 1988
48 Aprile Millo, e g
49 Happy-,"
1977 musical
50 Chandelier or
earring
52 Tin-1987
film
53 What Aaron's
rod became
55 Manorial
manager
57 Jefferson, Paine
et al
58 Spartan slaves
59 Marriage
portions
60 King Canute
was one
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lexicographer
author
1758-1843
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of-Hayes
3 Stout s
Wolfe
4 Affairs of honor
5 Thesaurus man
6 Mimic
7 Lacrosse team
8 City in Okla
9 Strong-scented
mint
10 Marsh birds
11 Corrupts
12 Cruised
13 Twig cut for
grafting
15 European river
18 Fourgon
21 Wind instrumen
23 Affinity
25 Vase-shaped
lugs
27 A Count of Monte
Cristo portrayer
29 And not
31 Make lace
34 Fired
35 X x X
36 New Orleans
eleven
37 Spatter
38 Weather
conditions
39 Lingers close by
40 Fixed charges
42 Turf
44 Fortitude
46 Outlets
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50 Nudnik
51 Layer of tissue
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