Biography
After Lamb disbanded in 2004, Lou Rhodes moved away from the layered electronics of that project toward straightforward folk in her solo output. Around the same period her relationship with the father of her children collapsed, leading her to leave London and take up residence at Ridge Farm, a commune in Surrey, England, where she deliberately avoided the usual rock-star patterns. Her debut solo album, Beloved One, appeared via self-release in early 2006 and received a Mercury Prize nomination, which ultimately went to the Sheffield-based indie rockers Arctic Monkeys. The follow-up, Bloom, surfaced in 2007 on the A&G imprint and earned favorable notices; it contained the single “The Rain” and was accompanied by a promotional tour that commenced later that year. Lamb reunited in 2009 and returned to the road, yet Rhodes simultaneously began writing and tracking her third solo record, One Good Thing, which arrived in early 2010. Co-production duties fell to her Lamb bandmate Andy Barlow, marking the pair’s first joint studio work since 2004. Her fourth solo effort, Theyesandeye, reached listeners in 2016 after being captured at a friend’s studio in rural Wiltshire and co-produced by Simon Byrt, who also supplied piano, bass, guitar, and synths throughout the sessions.
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Singles
