Hold On Onto I.D.: Black Vinyl LP Don Letts Kitchens of Distinction)

Kitchens of Distinction)

HTRK’s sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities

almost ambient

filling out the arrangements

Race The Night is both a party with old friends and a message to leap into the present with arms wide open

Hold On Onto I.D.: Black Vinyl LP Don Letts Kitchens of Distinction)Recorded 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