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Description
Expanding the boundaries of traditional folk music, 'False Lankum' found Lankum transforming centuries-old ballads into a haunting and deeply immersive listening experience. Drawing on Irish folk traditions while embracing drones, distortion, and experimental production, the Dublin quartet created an album that balanced fragile beauty with overwhelming darkness. Conceived as a complete journey rather than a collection of songs, the record moved seamlessly between moments of spiritual serenity and unsettling intensity, revealing new emotional depths within both traditional material and original compositions.
Working once again with producer John 'Spud' Murphy, Lankum enriched their acoustic foundations with vast textures, dissonant atmospheres, and hypnotic repetition. Traditional songs such as "Go Dig My Grave" were reimagined with remarkable emotional weight, while originals like "Netta Perseus" and "The Turn" sat naturally alongside centuries-old melodies, blurring the line between preservation and reinvention. Bold, cinematic, and profoundly moving, 'False Lankum' stands as a landmark work that redefined the possibilities of contemporary folk music without losing sight of its ancestral roots.
Tracklist
- Go Dig My Grave
- Clear Away in the Morning
- Fugue I
- Master Crowley's
- Newcastle
- Fugue II
- Netta Perseus
- The New York Trader
- Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
- Fugue III
- On a Monday Morning
- The Turn
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