City Lights - Vinyl LP
Overview
Product Information
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 10-06-2023
- Label: Blank Forms
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- Double Standard
- City Lights
- Oooh Ahh
- Cape of Seaweed
- Lyin' Eyes
- Cold Coffee
- Here Come the Candles
- Faithful Calls
- White Eyes
- The Visitor
- Snowbirds of Alkatraz
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Recorded and self-released by The Shadow Ring's own Dry Leaf Discs in 1993, City Lights is the debut record of the then duo Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris-an assured arrival statement teeming with stripling angst and ambition. On a recently-acquired secondhand guitar, Lambkin plays repetitive, brooding licks that form the record's backbone, weaving in and out of sync with Harris's free-form percussion and the pair's sing-song poetry. Tracks range from unraveling nursery-rhyme ditties to extended jams awash with Casiotone and toy piano noodling. The duo's musical hobby-horses work themselves in: the influence of Mark E. Smith's breathless deadpan, the headless outer-edges of ESP-Disk's back catalog, the eerie atmospherics of Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, and the deconstructed rock tunes of the Dunedin scene are all detectable, although there is a sui generis quality to the Shadow Ring's artless temerity. "I've got to see and taste those city lights," intones Lambkin on the album's title track-indeed, this is a record of naked drive and pent-up desperation, and a shimmering glimpse of what's to come.
- Vinyl Format: Vinyl LP
- Release Date: 10-06-2023
- Label: Blank Forms
- Genre: Rock
Track List
- Double Standard
- City Lights
- Oooh Ahh
- Cape of Seaweed
- Lyin' Eyes
- Cold Coffee
- Here Come the Candles
- Faithful Calls
- White Eyes
- The Visitor
- Snowbirds of Alkatraz
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