Fear of Fours is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Lamb.
[4] The title Fear of Fours alludes to the album's avoidance of the four-on-the-floor rhythm commonly used in dance music.
Lamb's Andy Barlow later explained, "By the time we came to record Fear of Fours it felt like everything in 44 had been done ...
When you're in 78, or 34 even, you get a loop that you've heard a hundred times before and it can immediately have a different feel to it.
"[5] John Bush of AllMusic said that while Lamb's 1996 eponymous debut album "was practically a revolution in the development of a satisfactory fusion of singer/songwriter vocals and drum'n'bass", Fear of Fours "sets the bar much higher", praising Barlow in particular as "one of the most capable and inventive producers in the electronic community.