Description
Lankum – Live in Dublin – Vinyl Record
Lankum’s Live in Dublin captures the band at full strength in front of a hometown crowd, turning familiar material into something heavier, stranger, and more electric with the pressure of the room behind it. Recorded across three sold-out nights at Vicar Street in Dublin in the wake of False Lankum, it’s a live album that doesn’t feel like a souvenir—it feels like a ritual document, with songs stretching, darkening, and sharpening as the band locks into that uniquely Lankum balance of tradition and dread. The arrangements are physical and immersive: drones thicken like weather, rhythms thud with a steady inevitability, and the harmonies arrive like a chorus rising out of the floorboards. Even when the band are playing well-known folk standards, the effect is less “singalong” than spell-casting—music that pulls you in by repetition and intensity until the air changes.
The set draws from across their catalogue and highlights how much force Lankum can generate without ever relying on volume alone. Pieces like “The Wild Rover” and “The Pride of Petravore” become slow-burning, trance-like journeys, building tension through texture and incremental shifts, while “Go Dig My Grave” hits with stark emotional weight and a sense of old stories still cutting into the present. A major moment here is “The Rocky Road to Dublin,” included as its first official release, delivered with a drive and bite that underlines how Lankum can take a staple and make it feel newly urgent. Across the album, the crowd and the room aren’t background noise—they’re part of the sound, amplifying the feeling that these songs aren’t being performed at an audience so much as forged with them. Released on Rough Trade in 2024, Live in Dublin is an essential entry for new listeners and a must for longtime fans: a powerful, atmospheric live statement that shows why Lankum are one of the most compelling folk groups of their generation.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic
Track Listing
The Wild Rover
The Rocky Road To Dublin
The Pride of Petravore
Go Dig My Grave
Fugue
Bear Creek
