False Lankum

{{Music ratings

| ADM = 8.3/10{{cite web|url=http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/13592/Lankum-False-Lankum.aspx|title=False Lankum by Lankum reviews|website=AnyDecentMusic?|access-date=10 July 2023}}

| MC = 89/100{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/false-lankum/lankum|title=False Lankum by Lankum Reviews and Tracks|website=Metacritic|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/false-lankum-mw0003923118|title=Lankum – False Lankum Album Review|website=AllMusic|last=Monger|first=Timothy|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev2 = Clash

| rev2score = 8/10{{cite magazine|url=https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/lankum-false-lankum/|title=Lankum – False Lankum {{!}} Reviews|magazine=Clash|last=Howieson|first=Craig|date=23 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev3 = The Guardian

| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/17/lankum-false-lankum-review-folk-rough-trade|title=Lankum: False Lankum review – folk radicals get in touch with their softer side|newspaper=The Guardian|last=Rogers|first=Jude|date=17 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev4 = The Irish Times

| rev4score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/review/2023/03/17/lankum-false-lankum-landmark-collection-with-surprising-light-among-the-deathly-intent/|title=Lankum: False Lankum – Landmark collection with surprising light among the deathly intent|newspaper=The Irish Times|last=Long|first=Siobhán|date=17 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev5 = Mojo

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/new-music/lankum-reviewed/|title=Lankum Reviewed!|magazine=Mojo|last=Wirth|first=Jim|date=22 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 7.7/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lankum-false-lankum/|title=Lankum: False Lankum Album Review|website=Pitchfork|last=Leas|first=Ryan|date=24 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev7 = Record Collector

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/false-lankum|title=False Lankum {{!}} Lankum|magazine=Record Collector|last=Curran|first=Shaun|date=24 March 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

| rev8 = Uncut

| rev8score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite magazine|url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/album/lankum-false-lankum-142248/|title=Lankum – False Lankum|magazine=Uncut|last=Young|first=Rob|date=7 April 2023|access-date=9 July 2023}}

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False Lankum received a score of 89 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on eight critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". AllMusic's Timothy Monger described the album as a "nihilistic, almost comically bleak trek into the dark heart of folk music" as well as "a difficult but defining statement made at the height of their powers". Jude Rogers of The Guardian felt that it "teems with similar moments of iridescent bliss" and its tracks "also unfurl into each other without a break, alternately lulling the listener then casting them into storms of shuddering sounds". Siobhán Long of The Irish Times wrote that Lankum have "chosen to balance the darkness with copious shafts of light and delicate beauty" and the album "positions Lankum in a space that's utterly their own: delighting in the myriad influences that colour their sound".

Jim Wirth of Mojo opined that the album "offers hurricane-force drama at times" and "also tells a less grisly tale about growing up and realising that your swashbuckling days might be over. If modern folk music needs its own OK Computer, its own The Dark Side of the Moon, or indeed its own F♯A♯∞, this may well be it". Rob Young of Uncut found False Lankum to be "some measure their most ambitious in terms of instrumentation, arrangements and the sheer creation of atmosphere" and stated that the band "have found a convincing way to keep the damn hulk going, stoking the engines of folk tradition and setting course to who knows when". Shaun Curran of Record Collector characterized it as "definitely a demanding listen, but an extraordinary one".

Clash{{'}}s Craig Howieson wrote that the band "continue to mine some of the finest – and criminally overlooked – songs of folk music's past and tailor them to the zeitgeist", concluding that the album "will one day too become a historical artefact", but "one which will brighten the future of those who devote time to its unique majesty". Ryan Leas, reviewing the album for Pitchfork, called it "spellbinding" and felt that the band "uncovers eerie new depths in centuries-old forms" on an album that "plays less like discrete songs and more as one long fever dream composed of scenes from across centuries".

{{Track listing

| headline = False Lankum track listing

| title1 = Go Dig My Grave

| length1 = 8:38

| writer1 = Jean Ritchie

| title2 = Clear Away in the Morning

| length2 = 7:00

| writer2 = Gordon Bok

| title3 = Fugue I

| length3 = 1:06

| writer3 = Lynch, Lynch, Peat, MacDiarmada

| title4 = Master Crowley's

| length4 = 5:45

| writer4 = Traditional

| title5 = Newcastle

| length5 = 5:43

| writer5 = Traditional

| title6 = Fugue II

| length6 = 0:59

| writer6 = Lynch, Lynch, Peat, MacDiarmada

| title7 = Netta Perseus

| length7 = 4:40

| writer7 = Daragh Lynch

| title8 = The New York Trader

| length8 = 7:40

| writer8 = Traditional

| title9 = Lord Abore and Mary Flynn

| length9 = 8:38

| writer9 = Traditional

| title10 = Fugue III

| length10 = 2:05

| writer10 = Lynch, Lynch, Peat, MacDiarmada

| title11 = On a Monday Morning

| length11 = 5:12

| writer11 = Cyril Tawney

| title12 = The Turn

| length12 = 12:58

| writer12 = Daragh Lynch

| total_length = 70:24

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Category:2023 albums

Category:Lankum albums

Category:Rough Trade Records albums