The Lamb as Effigy

about this album

Sprain's sophomore album The Lamb as Effigy would be released on September 1st, 2023 and would be their very last album they would make. On the 16th of next month, Sprain would announce on their Twitter and Instagram that the band would be disbanding. Citing that they as a band decided that there was no longer a "logical path forward". The Lamb as Effigy is most notable for it's dissonant and eclectic instrumentation and Alex Kent's dark, abstract and avant-garde lyricism. As Sprain completely switches up their sound from their slowcore, post-hardcore, indie roots they've been associated with since their self-titled 2018 EP Sprain and flips their sound over their hand and completely dives to post-rock and noise rock territory. With the finished result ultimately being an album that's completely chaotic, manic, and freewheeling. A far outcry from what they've made up until this point. This album was met with lukewarm reviews by music critics. Pitchfork, an affluential music review / music critic website, would give this an album a 7 and cite that their "beauty of the drone" would ultimately become "oppressive". But while the average music score for this album is an 80 according to AOTY, audiences praised this album for being unnerving, challenging, mysterious, and dark and hailing this as album of the year. With the user score being just one point above their 80 score. Before the band disbanded, Alex Kent would go on reddit and do a AMA. He cited that the inspirations for t

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