Lankum - False LankumFalse Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that years RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Musics Best Albums of the Year list. Drawing on traditional folk songs, Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new intensity and

The sharp angles and hook-laden guitar lines that were once seen as a trademark sound are less in evidence

Russian Circles created their most fuming and focused work to date—an album that favors the exorcism of two years’ worth of tension over the melancholy and restraint that often colored their past endeavors

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Recorded earlier this year in Sussex (UK)

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such as the Ramones and Patti Smith

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who later departed the band after 22 years