The Lamb As Effigy
by Sprain

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The Lamb As Effigy by Sprain
Year: 2023
Release date: 2023-09-01
Overall rank: 3,996th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 61 votes)
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Award Top albums of of the 2020s (273rd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,996th)

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The Lamb As Effigy is ranked as the best album by Sprain.

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Overall rank: 3,996th | 2020s rank: 273rd | 2023 rank: 46th  Overall chart history
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The Lamb As Effigy ratings

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From 09/05/2023 05:33 | #298981 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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. (Edited)
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From 01/08/2024 16:29 | #300992 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
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 (Edited)
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From 09/05/2023 19:11 | #298985 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Most impressive record I've heard so far this decade. (Edited)
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From 02/23/2024 17:46 | #302168 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Not a comfortable listen but a rewarding one. (Edited)
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From 01/09/2024 16:42 | #301023
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 (Edited)
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