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Lankum's Hammersmith Apollo show is spellbinding and dread-drenched. What a shame the crowd can't shut the hell up

In spite of their particularly shouty crowd, Lankum give a dazzling performance at their biggest UK show to date

Louder · Oct 28, 2024

Lankum provide “the best folk horror soundtrack never written” at their euphoric, highly-moving Glastonbury set

Irish folk group Lankum give a tear-jerking, intense performance for their Saturday afternoon slot at Glastonbury Festival

Louder · Jun 30, 2024

The 10 best folk albums of 2023

Irish label Nyahh captured the sounds of rowdy pub backrooms, the Gentle Good reimagined folk songs from the National Library of Wales and a legend revisited her past

The Guardian - UK · Dec 27, 2023

ØXN: CYRM review – Irish folk debut full of unsettling dark magic

Featuring grisly trad tales, striking vocals, two members of Lankum and shades of PJ Harvey, this is a compelling record from Claddagh’s first signing for nearly two decades

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023

‘We are extreme’ … how Lankum’s heavy mutant folk made them Mercury favourites

They play 30 instruments between them and make folk songs sound like heavy metal. As their latest album competes for the Mercury music prize, we meet Irish experimental noise-makers Lankum

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023

Lankum review – eerie, overwhelming radical Irish folk already feels centuries old

The Mercury-nominated four-piece play every song as if they’re fighting with it, gasping for air before verses

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2023

Lankum: False Lankum review – folk radicals get in touch with their softer side

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2023