{"product_id":"the-shadow-ring-city-lights","title":"The Shadow Ring - City Lights","description":"\u003cp\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","brand":"mysite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58363829715269,"sku":"BKFO38.1","price":6.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1063\/8881\/6197\/files\/the-shadow-ring-music-vinyl-records-the-shadow-ring-city-lights-783970982582-bkfo38-1-39955176489212.jpg?v=1782304923","url":"https:\/\/midnightukvinyl.com\/products\/the-shadow-ring-city-lights","provider":"MIDNIGHT GROOVE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}