Label: Blackforms – BF039 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 2023 Genre: Rock Style: Alternative Rock, Avantgarde
SHADOW RING BACK IN BIZ (Mint / New)
At last, Blank Forms present the first two transmission from the long in the making career spanning retrospective of The Shadow Ring - marking the first time any of this stuff has been commercially available since release.
Dissolving a shared passion for fringe art and music, Graham Lambkin and Darren Harris formed The Shadow Ring in their hometown of Folkestone and willed into being a crudely disaffected and crumbling sort of psychedelia - a distinctly english malaise of monotony and queasy masculine self pity, a morosely enchanted mundanity. Beyond slack and barely held together the duo starkly capture a feral car-boot bleakness, a feverish landscape of coastal gargoyles trapped in a cycle of domesticated habitual horror.
Considered the breakthrough having been picked up by US weirdo powerhouse Siltbreeze records, the ‘difficult’ 2nd album sees Graham and Darren doubling down on their bullshit - if it’s broke, it’s not worth fixing.
Stretched further and increasingly surreal, they this time seem to tackle a horse-meat scandal, the excavation of vital organs and a particularly dreary encounter with Bruce’s Price is Right.
Tracklist A1 Horse-Meat Cakes A2 Heart, Liver & Lungs A3 Put The Music In It's Coffin A4 Remembering Old Friends A5 Mustard Hooves B1 Nocturnal Middle Rumbles B2 Caribbean Porridge B3 Crystal Tears B4 Spin The Animal Dial B5 Moonlight In Wings
