The Shadow Ring: Hold Onto I.D. vinyl record

The Shadow Ring: Hold Onto I.D. vinyl recordRecorded 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

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It follows Selected Early Keyboard Works and Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (named the #1 archival release of 2019 by The Wire)

Goss’s voice is slowed

and approaches that may otherwise remain buried

An enduring presence in the East Village

are present at the opening of the piece and reemerge towards the end of the recording

weaving around the ensemble with a fierce elegance

The Summer House Sessions ensemble joyously layers manifold cultural idioms

her brother Peter

abstracted translations of text from English to German against a lush and swelling soundscape

extended techniques for the trombone on Works

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