False Lankum

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AlbumMar 24 / 202312 songs, 1h 10m 29s93%
Irish Folk Music Avant-Folk
Popular Highly Rated

It's been a long long time coming, but we are delighted to finally announce the release of our new album False Lankum, along with the premiere of the first single, Go Dig My Grave.  The album was recorded across 2021 & 2022 by our longtime producer John ‘Spud’ Murphy in Hellfire Studio and Guerilla Studios in Ireland. The cover was shot by Steve Gullick, famed for photographing Nirvana amongst many greats, with a Gustav Doré illustration featured in the lower third, designed and laid out by Alison Fielding. It is our most ambitious record to date and we are very proud to finally unleash it upon the world. As well as the standard black vinyl, we will be releasing a Limited Edition Burnt Orange Transparent Double LP & CD. There will be an opportunity to obtain four limited edition prints, by legendary photographer Steve Gullick. The individual prints will be available across the world, with a signed edition available from Bandcamp.

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7.7 / 10

The Dublin group has spent a decade making folk music sound foreign and transfixing. Its spellbinding new album uncovers eerie new depths in centuries-old forms.

Not so for Lankum, Ireland's uncompromising purveyors of doom folk.

8 / 10

An obsession with the past can alter and crush the brightest of futures. Yet an appreciation and understanding of what has come before can expand our

9.0 / 10

False Lankum by Lankunm album review by Greg Walker. The Irish band's full-length is now available via Rough Trade Records and DSPs

Without diluting their power or abandoning their gothic intensity, the Dublin group’s fourth album lulls the listener with songs of exquisite softness and deeply affecting harmony

Radie Peat’s raw, uncompromising vocals stand out in a collection that positions Lankum in a space utterly their own

9 / 10