Artist's albums
False Lankum
2023 · album
Newcastle
2023 · single
The New York Trader
2023 · single
Go Dig My Grave
2023 · single
The Young People (Edit)
2019 · single
The Livelong Day
2019 · album
The Young People
2019 · single
The Wild Rover
2019 · single
Between the Earth and Sky
2017 · album
Cold Old Fire
2015 · album
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Biography
Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum announced a new record today, False Lankum, out March 24, 2023 on Rough Trade Records. False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s Best Albums of the Year list. Drawing on traditional folk songs, Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new intensity and beauty into each track. This record sees the band cement their breakout from the folk genre, creating bold, contemporary music that may be fashioned from traditional elements but is firmly new, sitting comfortably alongside Rough Trade labelmates like black midi and Gilla Band. False Lankum also features two original tracks, ‘Netta Perseus’ and ‘The Turn’, both penned by the group’s Daragh Lynch.