Lankum

It's on my short list, too!

not seen it mentioned anywhere but i assume the title is a play on this song performed here by George Fosbury?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEiis7bg4lo

Bob Copper’s write up from Songs and Summer Breezes here. The tune itself is used for multiple songs iirc (which i may not be)

As for Lankum, I’ve struggled with this album, but drone generally leaves me cold. Will give it another go though.

Is this very anti-ILM?

Maybe because it's Irish? English folk music tends to be hipper.

not seen it mentioned anywhere but i assume the title is a play on this song performed here by George Fosbury?

Bob Copper’s write up from Songs and Summer Breezes here. The tune itself is used for multiple songs iirc (which i may not be)

As for Lankum, I’ve struggled with this album, but drone generally leaves me cold. Will give it another go though.

― Fizzles, Sunday, July 16, 2023 7:15 AM (thirteen hours ago)

I think the band have specifically mentioned this version - False Lankum, sung by John Reilly, a Traveller, who was camped at Cloongrehan, Cootehall, County Roscommon:
https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:31077

I was personally more familiar with Steeleye Span's "Long Lankin" & Shirley Collins' "Cruel Lincoln", but it bubbles up a lot.

Really enjoying this but I wouldn't say it's standard ILM - the folk bits are, uh, folk-ier than than folk x drone/metal stuff that's done well here prior like Chelsea Wolfe or Emma Ruth Rundle.

xp it definitely could be, lots of Irish folk is unjustly ignored or brushed over in favour of English stuff, but the wave of recent English avant-folk (Stick in the Wheel, Shovel Dance Collective, Jim Ghedi, etc.) doesn't get a lot of attention on here either. I agree with etc - the folk bits here draw deeply from traditional music, which is usually a harder sell to a broader audience than original compositions

anyway glad to see people are enjoying the new record! for my money it's the most consistent Lankum album - other albums may have better songs, but none of them are as good a front-to-back listen as this one (which also makes it a good starting point in their discography imo). oh and if you get the chance to see them live, do it! hearing them open their concert with The Wild Rover was transcendental

ah, thanks etc - tangled roots! xp

Lankum are a national treasure.

https://www.hotpress.com/music/lankum-cancel-denmark-show-and-entire-us-tour-22984296

Bummer.

Its shit, but Im sure they have good reason.

Did anyone check out Ian's solo album?

https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-take-the-black-worm-with-me

We did a little feature on it here:

https://www.mixcloud.com/DublinDigitalRadio/no-place-like-drone-021122-one-leg-one-eye-special/

Looking forward to seeing them at Supersonic in Birmingham (UK) this weekend. New to them but can sense that live they hit twice as hard

This is a shoo-in for the Mercury Prize tonight.

oh well, nice try

this album is so fucking good

it's certainly a "me problem" but i always get an anachronistic vibe when i listen to folk music, especially with traditional compositions. the magic of this album is that it feels and sounds modern while playing the traditional tunes mostly straight. sure there's the drone so not completely straight, but the harmonies and song structure aren't all that different from the traditional interpretations

https://www.uncut.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/U319-SLY-STONE-COVER-FINAL-RGB-696x522.jpg

FYI the band have compiled the cd on the cover of the new Uncut - includes a load of great new Irish stuff including Jonny Dillon, Elaine Malone and Landless, among others. Inside the mag I also talk to them about the Mercurys, the good weirdos of Dublin and doom yoga.

hope the glue that they use for Uncut CD doesnt mean the CD accidently falls into my trolley at Sainsburys.....

Let's hope not and that honest dadrock consumers continue to help me feed my children.

"the young people" is one of the best songs i've ever heard. i wish it would go on forever

love this album

FYI the band have compiled the cd on the cover of the new Uncut

that landless track is stunning

Don't think this was posted yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuaLiowElxE

I really tried with these guys, but I guess I was expecting the ratio of drone to traditional Irish stuff to lean more heavily in the former.

I'm liking this a lot on first listen. Like a lot of neo-folk stuff I wish any of the new rhythm sections could play like Fairport's or Pentangle's. They just end up sounding like rock.

CYRM Vinyl album ends on a locked groove of noise and drone.

Scott Walker track would be YMMR levels of trouser flapping sound pressure when played live I'd imagine.

False Lankum also ends in a lock groove

FYI the band have compiled the cd on the cover of the new Uncut - includes a load of great new Irish stuff including Jonny Dillon, Elaine Malone and Landless, among others. Inside the mag I also talk to them about the Mercurys, the good weirdos of Dublin and doom yoga.

― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, October 12, 2023 1:49 PM

Really liking the Trá Pháidín track "cé mo dhuine si​ú​l sa hi​-​vis" off this comp - Irish trad meets jazzy post-rock; threw it a nomination for the EOY poll.

https://trawfawdeen.bandcamp.com/track/c-mo-dhuine-si-l-sa-hi-vis

Yes, heard this on EOY noms and it's great.

I've been listening to some of the tracks the False Lankum songs are based on and Gordon Bok's version of Clear Away In The Morning is so beautiful