The Shadow Ring - Lighthouse

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 humor 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.

Tracklist

1. I Am the Black Piper I Am Lloyd Lyson Mindart
2. If It Is a Boy
3. X-Ray My Mind Don’t Say No

1. I Am a Lighthouse
2. Working for the R.N.L.I. Lifesavers
3. A Vision
4. Disrupt the Band’s Breathing Oyster Shell

1. Knock Between Doors Black Chalk
2. Francois deLoys
3. She’s a Cracker
4. Pig and Hog
5. Fish and Hog

1. Egg Mombassa
2. Arthuring Tina
3. The British Army Can Eat The R.A.F. Like a Nibble Where Do They Put It The R.A.F. Like A Nibble