ABSTRACT
The formal simplicity of much of The Lamb may reflect the strained conditions under which the album was made, both internally because of band frictions and externally because of record company pressures to finish the album and get back on tour. Regardless of the variety of forms presented on The Lamb, however, there does seem to be a guiding principle that unites many of the songs: a threefold division in musical structure or lyrical imagery. Writing in Melody Maker, Chris Welch called The Lamb "the first Gabriel Genesis evolution of music and lyrics to have been influenced by contact with America, and the casual observer can find himself totally mystified by its allusions and imagery". Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian sociologist and pop-culture theorist. According to McLuhan, societies are most affected by their fastest mode of communication; they are governed by their most dominant media.
