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, […]
The critically acclaimed CYRM by ØXN, repressed on a Limited Edition 180g Red Coloured Vinyl with embossed cover. Mastered and Recut by Grammy & Multi-platinum award-winning Mastering Engineer Kevin Tuffy. ØXN [pron. ox-en] exist at the uncharted intersection of its constituent parts, melding Lankum’s experimental doom folk (Radie Peat), the motorik euphoria of Percolator (John […]
Multi-award-winning Irish band Ye Vagabonds release their fourth album, and third for Rough Trade’s River Lea label, ‘All Tied Together’ on Jan 30th 2026.Recorded live in a house in Galway, with acclaimed producer Philip Weinrobe (Big Thief, Adrienne Lenker) at the helm, the powerful and cinematic album features deeply evocative original songs infused with memory, […]
The Scratch are Conor Dockery (guitar, backing vocals), Cathal McKenna (bass/backing vocals), Daniel Lang (cajón, percussion, lead vocals), Gary Regan (guitar/backing vocals)Following the success of their second album Mind Yourself (2023), coupled with their unrivalled high-octane live shows, playing to growing crowds across Ireland, the UK, Europe, the US and Australia, The Scratch are considered […]
Rough Trade Records are excited to announce a new stand-alone single by Lankum. Originally created for an Oona Doherty dance show ‘Specky Clark’ at Sadler’s Well earlier this year, the single is a devastatingly powerful and otherworldly interpretation of The Specials’ 1981 number one ‘Ghost Town’. ‘Ghost Town’ will be released on 12” vinyl format […]
Album of the Week – Rún – Rún (Staff Review) Rún is the self-titled debut from Irish trio Rían Trench (Crispy Jason / Solar Bears / Panikatax), Jim Henson voice, sound and visual artist Tara Baoth Mooney, and Diarmuid MacDiarmada (The Jimmy Cake, Nurse With Wound, The Tycho Brahe, brother of Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada). The […]
Were proud to announce that Trapped Animal will be releasing the new album by Cormorant Tree Oh, Moonish! On 180 GSM Clear Vinyl with artwork illustrated by CTO. Since CTOs 2022 sophomore album, Swoontide, Mary has found herself supporting Lankum at Vicar Street, gracing a cover CD of Uncut, picking up new fans from all […]
As a founding member of Dublin experimental folk group Lankum, Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song. Forging a musical path that is all at once dark, mysterious and foreboding, but ultimately transcendental. His new solo project One Leg One Eye sees him taking a fresh approach to musical arrangement culminating in a […]
Poor Creature is comprised of Ruth Clinton, Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody, all three are members of other bands (Landless and Lankum respectively) who have built a large following on re-interpreting songs from the past Songs that have existed for centuries can seem immutable and anchored to time. A new generation of Irish musicians are keen to acknowledge that musical […]
Remastered from the analog tapes. LP pressed on 180gram Purple Vinyl and packaged in a gatefold jacket with 12page booklet. Compass Records Group is announcing the SPECIAL EDITION release of the Mulligan Records classic ANDY IRVINE / PAUL BRADY. Long thought of as one of the seminal releases in the Irish music cannon, the album […]
