“Górecki” by Lamb

Lamb built "Górecki", a 1997 single from their self-titled debut, on a borrowed heartbeat: a sample from the second movement of Henryk Górecki's Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Andrew Barlow and Lou Rhodes wrote the song around it, and it's trip hop at its most devotional, all orchestral hush and breathing space until the beats skitter and crack underneath and the whole thing swells toward something close to rapture. It reached 30 on the UK singles chart, and Chicane released a cover of it in 2017.

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