Vinyl Record

Lankum - False Lankum

Lankum - False Lankum on 2LP vinyl. A 2023 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

2LP · 2023

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2023 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

False Lankum is the 2023 album that pushed Lankum from cult intensity into a wider argument about what folk music can bear. The record does not treat old songs as fragile heirlooms. It lets them become huge, haunted rooms: Go Dig My Grave opens with death-ballad severity before the arrangement expands into something almost physical; Clear Away in the Morning lets beauty flicker through dread; Netta Perseus pulls the band's own writing into the same mythic weather as the traditional material; The New York Trader turns a maritime narrative into a slow nightmare. The interludes matter too, because they make the album feel less like a collection of songs than a landscape crossed by drones, voices and bad omens. False Lankum is austere, but never empty. Its darkness has detail, patience and moral pressure.

False Lankum matters because it proved that a deeply traditional record could become one of the defining alternative albums of 2023. Its Mercury Prize attention made sense: Lankum had built a folk album with the scale, suspense and immersive force usually claimed by experimental rock.

This is the Lankum record for collectors who want the band at full mythic weight. It rewards uninterrupted listening and a system that can carry low drones, rough harmonies and sudden surges. Place it beside The Livelong Day to hear a band deepen rather than smooth out.

Dark Irish folk with cavernous drones, stark harmony, bowed textures, funeral pacing, traditional ballads, original writing and slow waves of tension.

Recommended for: Collectors of modern folk records with serious atmosphere; Listeners drawn to doom, drone and ballad traditions meeting; Fans of albums that feel immersive, severe and emotionally precise.

What year was False Lankum released? False Lankum was released in 2023. Why did False Lankum reach listeners outside folk circles? Its scale, drones and sense of dread connected with audiences used to experimental rock, metal and ambient music as much as traditional folk. Which songs introduce the album best? Go Dig My Grave, Clear Away in the Morning, Netta Perseus and The New York Trader show the album's balance of beauty, menace and long-form tension.