False Lankum
by Lankum
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 March 2023
- Label: Rough Trade
- Country: Ireland
- Length: 1:10:24
- Community rating: 4.04/5 from 18 ratings
Artists on this release: Cormac Mac Diarmada, Radie Peat, One Leg One Eye, Daragh Lynch
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'False Lankum' reimagines traditional folk songs through a modern, experimental lens, juxtaposing stark, drone-based arrangements and passages of intense, atmospheric noise against moments of delicate vocal beauty. The album deconstructs historical ballads and maritime songs, creating an immersive and seamless listening experience that is both bleak and transcendent. Winning the RT脡 Choice Music Prize and earning a Mercury Prize nomination, the record was critically lauded as a landmark work that radically expanded the boundaries of contemporary folk.
Genres
Descriptors: droning, traditional, folk, bleak, atmospheric, experimental, avant-garde, minimal, vocal, conceptual, storytelling, harmonies
Tracklist
- Go Dig My Grave (08:38)
- Clear Away in the Morning (07:00)
- Fugue I (01:06)
- Master Crowley's (05:45)
- Newcastle (05:43)
- Fugue II (00:59)
- Netta Perseus (04:40)
- The New York Trader (07:40)
- Lord Abore and Mary Flynn (08:38)
- Fugue III (02:05)
- On a Monday Morning (05:12)
- The Turn (12:58)
Credits
- Ian Lynch - vocals, uilleann pipes
- Daragh Lynch - vocals, guitar, guitar (bowed), piano, hammered dulcimer, organ
- Cormac Mac Diarmada - vocals, fiddle, viola, hammered dulcimer, banjo, banjo (bowed), guitar, piano, piano (bowed), pump organ, percussion
- Radie Peat - vocals, accordion
- Sadhbh Peat - concertina
- Cormac Begley - concertina (bass)
- John 'Spud' Murphy - electronics (subsonics), vocals, sampler (samples), producer, recorded by, mixed by
- Lankum - producer
- Harvey Birrell - mastered by
- John Dermody - percussion
- Ruth Clinton - theremin
- Andy Fenstermaker - vocals
- Iona Zajac - vocals
- Alison Fielding - design
- Steve Gullick - photography by
- HL - lacquer cut by