Lamb has all the excess of Prog: it's a 92 minute double-album with a few 8+ minute tracks and high concept lyrics (though as usual, I haven't paid much attention to those, because I'm more about the music). But this unlike many releases in that genre, this is not a musician's album. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice instrumental passages here, but for a prog album it's relatively sparsely orchestrated and quite vocal-centric.
There was a rift between the band and Gabriel, he was being courted as a writer and ended up recording his vocals separately from his bandmates. Several of the band members were less than happy about the finished album... Gabriel loved it, and left after the tour promoting it, possibly realising that his band mates wouldn't again let him have quite so much artistic freedom as he had on this album.
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