Read here why this album stood atop many an ‘Album of the Year 2023’ chart and why this will be a not-to-be-missed concert.
Leading British newspaper The Guardian recently described Lankum as ‘overwhelming radical Irish folk’ and situated him between “late-period Portishead and Sunn O))) as much as their Irish ancestors Planxty.” So it’s no wonder that they appear at festivals like Roadburn (NL) or even curate festivals that they invite Mogwai or Mercury Rev to. Their latest album False Lankum was described by Mojo as “modern folk music’s own OK Computer”. And both The Guardian and Uncut rightly(!) torpedoed False Lankum to Album of the Year 2023.
- ‘The 50 best albums of 2023, No 1 – Lankum: False Lankum. Wrangling Irish folk into expansive new territory, the group’s stunning harmonies lead us through delicate beauty and nightmarish cacophony’ – The Guardian
- ‘Het pas verscheen False Lankum, het vierde en verpletterende album van de Ierse band Lankum, is een plaat van uitersten geworden. Lieflijke folk ontspoort in een kakofonie van sonisch geweld. Traditionele muziek van soms eeuwen oud wordt met het juiste gevoel voor vernieuwing naar deze eeuw vertaald.’ – De Morgen
- ‘Le folk extrême de Lankum: Avec leur nouvel album jusqu’au-boutiste, les Dublinois de Lankum poussent la musique traditionnelle irlandaise dans ses derniers retranchements.’- Focus Le Vif
- 7.7 ‘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.’ – Pitchfork
- ‘Dublin experimental folk group Lankum deliver a bold and briny fifth album, False Lankum. Anyone dealing with folk music in the 21st century is working with salvage, with flotsam and jetsam from ages gone. Lankum have found a convincing way to keep the damn hulk going, stoking the engines of folk tradition and setting course to who knows when.’ - UNCUT
