The Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. LP XX1984 Syl Johnson's 'Is It Because

Syl Johnson's 'Is It Because I'm Black'

This isn’t soundtracking the end

contemplative lyricism and blissfully aching vocal melodies

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Closer “AA” takes the final step on the cycle with one of the album’s most explicitly electronic moments

The Shadow Ring - Hold Onto I.D. LP XX1984 Syl Johnson's 'Is It BecauseRecorded 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