The Shadow Ring - Lighthouse
The Shadow Ring - Lighthouse The Shadow Ring
Vinyl 2LP
Recorded in 1997, upon The Shadow Ring’s return from their final US tour, Lighthouse captures the group at their most stripped-down and visionary.
Graham Lambkin’s fractured texts conjure Folkestone’s haunted coastline—Vikings, the Morgawr, a fading Britain, the pull of the sea—under the sway of Alternative TV’s Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One), the mechanical vernaculars of Robert Ashley and Mark Perry, and the deflated humour of Dad’s Army and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.
Originally issued in 1999 on Scott Foust’s Swill Radio, this lost masterpiece—a stark, lo-fi world of home recording and concrète capture—is once again available on vinyl. For fans of Alan Titchmarsh, David Croft, Harry Pussy, and Idea Fire Company.
Track List
Side A
A1 - I Am the Black Piper I Am Lloyd Lyson Mindart
A2 - If It Is a Boy
A3 - X-Ray My Mind Don’t Say No
Side B
B1 - I Am a Lighthouse
B2 - Working for the R.N.L.I. Lifesavers
B3 - A Vision
B4 - Disrupt the Band’s Breathing Oyster Shell
Side C
C1 - Knock Between Doors Black Chalk
C2 - Francois deLoys
C3 - She’s a Cracker
C4 - Pig and Hog
C5 - Fish and Hog
Side D
D1 - Egg Mombassa
D2 - Arthuring Tina
D3 - The British Army Can Eat The R.A.F. Like a Nibble Where Do They Put It The R.A.F. Like A Nibble