The Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. LP XX1984 now in Tokyo)

now in Tokyo)

While there's no iconic single à la 'Der Mussolini'

Graham Lambkin and of course Penultimate Press to become a reality

" TOM CARTER

The Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. LP XX1984 now in Tokyo)Recorded from late 1996 through early 1997, Hold Onto I. D., The Shadow Rings fourth album, marks the apogee of the trios experimental rock epochtheir last record clinging to their factitious bandness before they let all song and structure go awash in sonic malaise for their final run of releases on Swill Radio. The surrealist dreams of City Lights and Put the Music in Its Coffin give way to pseudo expressionistic lyrics mired in the banality and