{"product_id":"city-lights-shadow-ring-lp","title":"City Lights, Shadow Ring, LP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\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\u003c\/div\u003e\t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 1 - Double Standard\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 2 - City Lights\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 3 - Oooh Ahh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 4 - Cape of Seaweed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 5 - Lyin' Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 6 - Cold Coffee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 7 - Here Come the Candles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 8 - Faithful Calls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 9 - White Eyes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 10 - The Visitor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisc 1, Track: 11 - Snowbirds of Alkatraz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Shadow Ring","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44225276018916,"sku":"BKFO38.1","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/4238818-3028191.jpg?v=1719664438","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/city-lights-shadow-ring-lp","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}