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Dublin’s Lankum return, bringing a new dimension to Specials classic
Song of the Day: An extraordinarily haunting and powerful release by the experimental Irish folk band with a cover of the often topical 1981 Specials classic number, now with a different dimension of drone sounds, strings, rich vocal harmonies, piano and a climax of rippling synths and beats, released on Rough Trade
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From the video for Poor Creature’s The Whole Town Knows
Song of the Day: A stirring, primal, powerfully dark, vivid hybrid-folk single by the trio of Ruth Clinton (Landless), Cormac MacDiarmada and John Dermody (of Lankum) heralding their debut album All Smiles Tonight, out on 11 July via River Lea Records
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One True Pairing’s forthcoming album Endless Rain
Song of the Day: After last year’s fabulous Frozen Food Centre, another beautiful, but here also edgy and powerful comeuppance song from the unique and beautiful voice of singer-songwriter Tom Fleming, formerly of Wild Beasts, with added evocatively jittery violin by Lankum’s Cormac MacDiamarda, and heralding the upcoming album Endless Rain, out on 25 October via Domino
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Lankum: Ian Lynch, Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat (Photo by Richard Dumas)
Song of the Day: Giving an old number new life, the acclaimed Irish folk band herald their forthcoming Live In Dublin album with a fabulous version of the traditional 19th-century song by Irish poet D. K. Gavan about a man's experiences as he travels to Liverpool from Ireland
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Formerly of Wild Beasts, Tom
Song of the Day: A gorgeous, harp-sweeping, soaring, poetic and full-voiced new single by the former Wild Beasts singer Tom Fleming with a poignant small-town vignette about childhood and adulthood, where home is a place to escape and there are ghosts in the aisles of supermarkets
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