The Shadow Ring Bundle

Before The Shadow Ring’s disbandment in 2002, this shambolic rock outfit of rowdy teenagers from southeast England left behind a mighty run of records, raucous live shows, and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning last year with the first-ever vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club (1992), Blank Forms Editions has been conducting a systematic retrospective of the storied group.

In anticipation of two new Shadow Ring LPs in 2025, collect the existing Blank Forms Editions reissues with this holiday bundle. This collection, on sale for a limited time, includes LPs of City Lights (1993), an early album of naked drive and pent-up desperation, and Put the Music in Its Coffin (1994), their uncompromising, otherworldly sophomore effort; a cassette of Live on KFJC (1996), their first and only live performance in the United Kingdom; a screenprinted t-shirt featuring a black-and-white photo of the band circa 1997; and The Shadow Ring (1992–2002), Blank Forms Editions’ comprehensive box set, which boasts 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.