Since 2014’s Cold Old Fire, Lankum’s debut album as a four-piece, the Dublin band have gone on to release three studio albums on Rough Trade Records – including The Livelong Day and False Lankum, which both won the Choice Music Prize for Irish Album of the Year. Lankum released a live album, Live in Dublin, in June 2024.
They were set for a North American autumn 2025 tour, but had to cancel due to ‘unforeseen circumstances’.
It’s an honour to be releasing a version of this iconic tune, and it feels eerily relevant to be referencing yet again themes of urban decay, economic hardship and working class frustration. – Lankum
Most recently, their track ‘The Granite Graze’ off of their 2017 record Between The Earth and Sky, was featured on Netflix’s House of Guinness soundtrack, which premiered last month.