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Baker's Dozen

Alchemy Happens: Lou Rhodes's Favourite Albums
The Quietus , August 31st, 2016 08:42

Penning her own Baker's Dozen of albums that shaped her career as both a member of Lamb and a solo artist, the singer picks 13 records that represent her "soul-music", following the release of theyesandeye

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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
This was the soundtrack to my early '90s and was instrumental in awakening me to electronic music and so, perhaps, to the birth of Lamb. I suppose it was a discovery of electronic music with a heart – something I didn't realise existed until this. Hearing this album I'm back in my tree-house-like flat in a coach house in Manchester's West Didsbury, the vinyl spinning and my ears opening to a whole new musical world.