Lighthouse

Recorded in 1997 after The Shadow Ring returned from their final US tour, Lighthouse finds the group at their most stripped-back and far-reaching. Graham Lambkin’s fractured texts drift through Folkestone’s haunted coastline, touching on Vikings, the Morgawr, a fading Britain and the pull of the sea.

You can hear 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 humour of Dad’s Army and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum.

Originally released in 1999 on Scott Foust’s Swill Radio, this lost masterpiece returns on vinyl: a stark, lo-fi world of home recording and concrète capture. For fans of Alan Titchmarsh, David Croft, Harry Pussy and Idea Fire Company.