THE SHADOW RING - LIGHTHOUSE [2026]

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Recorded in 1997, upon The Shadow Ring’s return from their final US tour, Lighthouse captures the group at their most stripped-down and visionary. Graham Lambkin’s fractured texts conjure Folkestone’s haunted coastline—Vikings, the Morgawr, a fading Britain, the pull of the sea—under the sway of Alternative TV’s Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One), the mechanical vernaculars of Robert Ashley and Mark Perry, and the deflated humor of Dad’s Army and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. Originally issued in 1999 on Scott Foust’s Swill Radio, this lost masterpiece—a stark, lo-fi world of home recording and concrète capture—is once again available on vinyl.

Release date: Friday 4th September 2026

Label: Blank Forms Editions

Format: Reissue pressed on double 12" vinyl LP, originally released 1997

Tracklist:

I Am the Black Piper I Am Lloyd Lyson Mindart

If It Is a Boy

X-Ray My Mind Don’t Say No

I Am a Lighthouse

Working for the R.N.L.I. Lifesavers

A Vision

Disrupt the Band’s Breathing Oyster Shell

Knock Between Doors Black Chalk

Francois deLoys

She’s a Cracker

Pig and Hog

Fish and Hog

Egg Mombassa

Arthuring Tina

The British Army Can Eat The R.A.F. Like a Nibble Where Do They Put It The R.A.F. Like A Nibble

Recorded in 1997, upon The Shadow Ring’s return from their final US tour, Lighthouse captures the group at their most stripped-down and visionary. Graham Lambkin’s fractured texts conjure Folkestone’s haunted coastline—Vikings, the Morgawr, a fading Britain, the pull of the sea—under the sway of Alternative TV’s Vibing Up the Senile Man (Part One), the mechanical vernaculars of Robert Ashley and Mark Perry, and the deflated humor of Dad’s Army and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. Originally issued in 1999 on Scott Foust’s Swill Radio, this lost masterpiece—a stark, lo-fi world of home recording and concrète capture—is once again available on vinyl.