The Lamb As Effigy (studio album)
by Sprain
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The Lamb As Effigy is ranked as the best album by Sprain.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 10/23/2025 08:42 |  sssvnnn | 8,077 | 67/100 |
| ! | 09/23/2025 21:06 | liquidbottle | 364 | 88/100 |
| ! | 07/13/2025 05:24 | jnmayles | 2,025 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.4/100, a mean average of 78.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.
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Not a comfortable listen but a rewarding one.
TBC...
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01.09.2023
Sprain (USA): The Lamb As Effigy
1.Man Proposes, God Disposes
2.Reiterations
3.Privilege Of Being
4.Margin For Error
5.The Commercial Nude
6.The Reclining Nude
7.We Think So Ill Of You
8.God, Or Whatever You Call It
ForegroundNoise 01/08/2024 16:29 | #300992
Immense. Like Home Is Where, Sprain came out with a debut that though well-executed, felt a little too derivative of an older sound. The Lamb as Effigy meanwhile wears its influences on its sleeves (Swans, This Heat, Glenn Branca) on its sleeves, but is anything but derivative. Closer "God, or Whatever You Call It" is a tough listen, especially since Alex Kent's downward spiral seems to have been the catalyst for the band to break up a month after this was released. His relentlessly intimate and self-effacing lyricism is certainly divisive, but The Lamb... captures Sprain at their most volatile – for better or worse.
From my Top 20 Albums of 2023: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=74659
lleon79 09/05/2023 19:11 | #298985
Most impressive record I've heard so far this decade.
pjohnsongolf 09/05/2023 05:33 | #298981
Every year there seems to be an album in the noise rock, post-punk scene that seemingly appears out of nowhere. This is that album in 2023.
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