The Shadow Ring - Put The Music In Its Coffin - VINYL LP

Recorded in summer of 1994 at S.H.P studios (frontman Graham Lambkin's parents' home), the group's sophomore record Put the Music in It's Coffin is a more sinister, saturnine affair than their debut City Lights. From the get-go, the record has a menacing, vile ambience. It's opening track InchHorse-Meat Cakes,Inch inspired by an anecdote by pulp author Philip K. Dick about how he and his wife subsisted off low-grade pet food when he first arrived in San Francisco, sets the tone lyrically and sonically. Subsequent tracks are filled with Rabelaisian body horror and sinewy, haptic diction. InchI try to pass out vital organs, convinced that they are waste,Inch intones Lambkin in InchHeart, Liver & Lungs,Inch before a chorus of detuned guitars kicks in, nearly drowning out the speaker's account of consuming chevaline intestines. Later songs similarly detail vernacular cooking (InchCaribbean Porridge,Inch about a cornmeal hangover cure), bodily processes (InchNocturnal Middle Rumbles,Inch about nighttime defecation), and creaturely conflict (InchCrystal TearsInch and InchSpin The Animal DialInch). Album Tracks 1. Horse-Meat Cakes 2. Heart, Liver & Lungs 3. Put the Music in It's Coffin 4. Remembering Old Friends 5. Mustard Hooves 6. Nocturnal Middle Rumbles 7. Caribbean Porridge 8. Crystal Tears 9. Spin the Animal Dial 10. Moonlight in Wings