Pre-Order 04/09/26 - Shadow Ring, The: Lighthouse (Vinyl 2xLP)

This item is available for pre-order only and will be dispatched on or around its release date (04/09/26)

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. For fans of Alan Titchmarsh, David Croft, Harry Pussy, and Idea Fire Company.

1. I Am the Black Piper
2. I Am Lloyd Lyson Mindart
3. If It Is a Boy
4. X-Ray My Mind
5. Don't Say No
6. I Am a Lighthouse
7. Working for the R.N.L.I. Lifesavers
8. A Vision
9. Disrupt the Band's Breathing
10. Oyster Shell
11. Knock Between Doors
12. Black Chalk
13. Francois deLoys
14. She's a Cracker
15. Pig and Hog
16. Fish and Hog
17. Egg Mombassa
18. Arthuring Tina
19. The British Army Can Eat the R.A.F. Like a Nibble
20. Where Do They Put It
21. The R.A.F. Like a Nibble