{"product_id":"the-shadow-ring-city-lights-vinyl-lp","title":"The Shadow Ring - City Lights (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails: \u003c\/strong\u003eRecorded 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble Standard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e City Lights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Oooh Ahh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cape of Seaweed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Lyin' Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Cold Coffee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Here Come the Candles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Faithful Calls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e White Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Visitor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Snowbirds of Alkatraz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Pale Blue Dot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089745195266,"sku":"783970982582","price":28.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/9007\/7442\/files\/4238818-3028191.jpg?v=1783370809","url":"https:\/\/soundbendrecords.co\/products\/the-shadow-ring-city-lights-vinyl-lp","provider":"Sound Bend Records ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}