while it's there, it's invincible on behalf of the wren...
March 18, 2020 1:57 PM   Subscribe

Award-winning writer Mike “M. John” Harrison tweeted effusively about this live performance of the final track on Irish folk band Lankum’s most recent album.

He asked the band directly about somehow buying a copy, and they responded.

Direct YouTube link to the video.

post title from twitter thread
posted by Mister Moofoo (6 comments total) 14 users marked this as a favorite
 
Thanks for posting this, it's haunting and gorgeous.
Reminds me of the time, long long ago, I first heard the final track on Rum, Sodomy & The Lash. Yes, yes, of course it's one of the other two Irish bands we've ever heard from in these parts, but what a song to finish a rollicking album with. Remind me again how great it is to cry at good music.
posted by winesong at 4:09 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


Yes, haunting and gorgeous and I had not heard of this group. I want more. In this time of plague it reminded me that my ancestors had survived the Great Hunger and other troubles; somehow that is a comfort. Music that goes straight to the soul, wild and desolate as parts of Connemara.
posted by mermayd at 5:25 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


That's a fantastic version, I like it better than the album. Thanks for posting!
posted by fshgrl at 5:56 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


This record has been on repeat for the past 2 months. I haven't been this excited about an album in a LONG time!
posted by TheCoug at 6:26 PM on March 18, 2020 [1 favorite]


Easy to imagine listening to this while bouldering on the heaths between Viriconium and the dismal little ports on the coast.
The rock is a friable and decrepit mudstone, barely able to take a grip. Below, hummocks of brittle, stiff grass mark out small pools of peaty water, dyed bright, flat primary colors by the ever present toxic metal salts leached from the great monolithic machines that litter the landscape.
The air smells of copper and frozen rot. As the music fades you hear the anguished cry of a raptor but can see nothing in the hazy gradient of the sky.
It's a good song.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:40 PM on March 18, 2020 [6 favorites]


Btw, if anyone is wondering what this refers to it's a group of women known as the Wrens of the Curragh.
posted by fshgrl at 4:52 PM on March 20, 2020


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