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The Shadow Ring (1992-2002)

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releases May 31, 2024

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11xCD + DVD box set manufactured by Asia Pacific Offset. Book printed at Ofset Yapimevi. Design by Lucas Quigley.

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1.	Claw Fight
2.	Father's Dead
3.	Pipe Fly
4.	Prallo By Window
5.	Opal
6.	Electric Soup
7.	Pound Coins
8.	Oak Key
9.	Cat Thread
10.	Coffee House
11.	Salt Would
12.	Spanish Donkey
13.	Raven Chest
14.	Clip Blue Ceap
15.	Theme'ers
16.	Paper Release
17.	A Fairwell Rive
18.	The Co-operative
19.	C-Town Breeding Ground
20.	The Golden Gate
21.	Dietary Complex
22.	Cave of Ice Cats
23.	Kent Custer 03:29	buy track
24.	The Garden Party
25.	Footprints In Milk
26.	Fire Melts Faster Than Ice
27.	The Drama of High Clack Clack
28.	Wooden Fishes In Their Juices
29.	Fire Felts Master The Ice
30.	The Seven Plagues
31.	Moon By Moon
32.	A Flash of 8-Watt
33.	Evil & Good
34.	The Warf of Radnor 05:30	buy track
35.	Stools of Repentance
36.	The Iron Ark
37.	Ark In The Rainclouds
38.	Don't Open The Window
39.	The Heavy Foot of The Lark
40.	Computer Forms
41.	Tiny Creatures 04:35	buy track
42.	Double Standard
43.	City Lights
44.	Oooh Ahh
45.	Cape of Seaweed 04:50	buy track
46.	Lyin' Eyes
47.	Cold Coffee
48.	Here Come the Candles
49.	Faithful Calls
50.	White Eyes
51.	The Visitor
52.	Snowbirds of Alkatraz
53.	All-Frock Colours
54.	Harlequin (Darkest Part of The Sky)
55.	Squawk With Me (Version I)
56.	Horse-Meat Cakes
57.	Heart, Liver & Lungs
58.	Put The Music In Its Coffin 03:12	buy track
59.	Remembering Old Friends
60.	Mustard Hooves
61.	Nocturnal Middle Rumbles
62.	Caribbean Porridge
63.	Crystal Tears
64.	Spin The Animal Dial
65.	Moonlight In Wings
66.	Squawk With Me (Version II)
67.	Birds & Booze
68.	KFJC (89.7 FM) radio spot
69.	Candle Meat
70.	Media Egg
71.	Wallet of Wasps
72.	Some Of Us 05:56	buy track
73.	You're Holding All Your Feathered Stock
74.	Catching Sight Of Passing Things
75.	Bush Mice
76.	Camel or Carthorse
77.	Recovered Meat
78.	Prelude (Rats & Mice)
79.	Rats & Mice
80.	V.E.R.M.I.N.
81.	Gloved Up
82.	Back Combed Lines
83.	The Unnatural Crime of Laying an Egg
84.	Trying To Find
85.	Tuna in Brine
86.	The New Plague
87.	Apricot Rat 02:50	buy track
88.	Like When (early version)
89.	Hold Onto I.D. (early version)
90.	Watch The Water
91.	The Way Of The World
92.	Coombe House
93.	Wash What You Eat
94.	Like When 07:44	buy track
95.	Basic Everyday Life
96.	Hold Onto I.D.
97.	The Way Of The World (II)
98.	Prawnography
99.	Mouth on Mouse
100.	Mouse In Mouth
101.	I Am The Black Piper
102.	Interlude I
103.	I Am Lloyd Lyson
104.	Mindart
105.	If It Is A Boy
106.	Interlude II
107.	X-Ray My Mind
108.	Don't Say No
109.	I Am A Lighthouse 03:28	buy track
110.	Working For The R.N.L.I.
111.	Lifesavers
112.	A Vision
113.	Disrupt The Band's Breathing
114.	Oyster Shell
115.	Interlude III
116.	Knock Between Doors
117.	Black Chalk
118.	Francois deLoys
119.	She's A Cracker
120.	Pig And Hog
121.	Fish And Hog 03:04	buy track
122.	Egg Mombassa
123.	Arthuring Tina
124.	The British Army Can Eat
125.	The R.A.F. Like A Nibble (I)
126.	Where Do They Put It
127.	The R.A.F. Like A Nibble (II)
128.	Outro-Intro
129.	The World Phone
130.	Interlude IV
131.	Put Out
132.	C-Out
133.	New Born
134.	Scratches
135.	We're Complex Piss 06:42	buy track
136.	Lindus Slideshow
137.	I Lap It Up
138.	The Riverside
139.	Lindus Hologram
140.	The Liquid Boys
141.	Mind Blocks Crack
142.	Alcove Hair & Hand
143.	When Entrance Celebrates Champagne
144.	Kako Dresso
145.	Ro
146.	Man On The Land
147.	Man 06:10	buy track
148.	Start Repeating
149.	Draining
150.	& In
151.	I'm Some Songs
152.	Veehay
153.	The Flowing
154.	Shallows
155.	People
156.	Their Minds
157.	And What If
158.	What's To 01:12	buy track
159.	The Body's Unbruised
160.	Hold It There
161.	The Brace
162.	Important Jobs
163.	Musical Intermission I
164.	Musical Intermission II
165.	Dear
166.	Take Great Care
167.	Intro
168.	Starbird (Live)
169.	Improvisation (Live)
170.	Harlequin (Live)
171.	Tiny Creatures (Live)
172.	Spin The Animal Dial (Live)
173.	Put The Music In Its Coffin (Live)
174.	Wallet of Wasps (Live)
175.	Nocturnal Middle Rumbles (Live)
176.	Mustard Hooves (Live)
177.	Rats & Mice (Live)
178.	City Lights (Live)
179.	Like When (Live)
180.	Hold Onto I.D. (Live)
181.	Mouth On Mouth (Live)
182.	Mouse In Mouth (Live)
183.	Stella Drive (Live)
184.	Coombe House (Live)
185.	The Way of The World (Live)
186.	The Way of The World II (Live)

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Preorder now directly from Blank Forms at the special presale price of $175 (normally $225), and receive a limited-edition photographic print signed by the group, while supplies last. Note that if you pre-order a title with additional items in your cart, your full order will ship upon release date.

At last: the long-awaited box set surveying The Shadow Ring's prolific, decade-long existence. Eleven CDs, one DVD, and a more than 450-page book featuring a detailed biographical essay, hundreds of photographs, ten interviews, a complete discography with lyrics, and rarely-seen ephemera.

The Shadow Ring (1992–2002) presents a comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade. Throughout their legendary ten-year run, this shambolic rock outfit, formed by a group of teenagers in the port town Folkestone, were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. The group have left behind a mighty run of eight LPs, a handful of 7-inches, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic. Collected here for the first time are The Shadow Ring’s live cuts, rarities, and complete commercial releases, spread out across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book that includes a monographic biographical survey, more than one hundred color photos, a comprehensive discography with transcribed lyrics, and a selection of zine appearances, fliers, postcards, and other miscellanea. In aggregate, this significant collection not only plums the depths of the band and its attendant lore, but reveals a vivid minor history of mail-order networks, bedroom recording sessions, cross-USA couch-surfing, and encounters with fellow travelers such The Dead C, Harry Pussy, Charalambides, Richard Youngs and the No-Neck Blues Band. Where is the connecting thread between Ralf Wehowsky and Squirrel Nut Zippers? Inquire within.

The roughly 200 songs in this set trace the band from its earliest days recording in Lambkin’s parents’ house (SHP Studios), through its brooding mid-period, garnering word-of-mouth notoriety that peaked with the trio turning down an invitation to tour with Pavement, to a string of increasingly uncompromising experiments with electronics, voice, and tape. Although the band’s sound morphs considerably during this time period, from spartan beginnings using pots and pans as a drum set to their ultra-deconstructed latter-day approach, certain core sensibilities are apparent throughout: brash youthful rawness, wry and morbid lyricism, stripped-down angularity, and a penchant for atmospherics. This boxset, featuring every record and single, and buttressed by twenty-nine rarely-heard recordings, including proto-Shadow Ring projects such as the Cat & Bells Club and Footprint cassettes, and their unearthed final CD-R Darren Harris Reads Graham Lambkin, presents the first opportunity to hear this arc in full. The ebbs and flows of the band—their schoolboy beginnings, initial successes, first shows and tours, life milestones, and Lambkin’s gradual development as a solo artist—are painstakingly detailed in a sizable band history-cum-Künstlerroman by Blank Forms artistic director Lawrence Kumpf, illustrated with candid photos, sketches, letters, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera. The music and videos can speak for themselves, but taken as a mass, this collection makes sense of the group’s utter uncanniness without comprising one iota of their mystique, bringing something new to the table for completionists and the uninitiated alike.

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releases May 31, 2024

The Shadow Ring: Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, Tim Goss
Audio transfers and remastering: Graham Lambkin with Daniel Martin-McCormick and Jade Guterman
Mastering: Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung Mastering, Bonn, Germany
DVD mastering: C. Spencer Yeh
Design: Lucas Quigley

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