The stark, haunting sound of self-described “Dublin Folk Miscreants” Lankum somehow seems fitting for a cold winter day. “The Granite Gaze” is hardly an uplifting number, with singer Radie Peat delivering lines such as “they draw the marrow from our very bones and we in turn turned on our own,” “we queued up to eat the dirt,” and “the future’s farther day by day,” yet it’s an oddly compelling song that grabbed my attention from the first moment I heard it.
The song’s lyrics are matched perfectly by the slowly building music, which blends traditional sounds with a range of other influences – the band cites everything from from “American old-timey music, krautrock, ambient techno and psychedelic folk, to black metal, drone, punk and rock n’ roll” in their bio.
Lankum’s Between The Earth And The Sky is out now on Rough Trade Records.