Ian Lynch is a pillar of the brilliant band Lankum, who recall late-period Portishead and Sunn O))) as much as the Watersons and their Irish ancestors Planxty. Long interested in how traditional sounds and lyrics can unseat and unsettle, his main instruments on his debut album as One Leg One Eye are his voice and the uilleann pipes, the latter creating layers of pulverising black metal drones on epic opening track Glistening, She Emerges. Field recordings of bubbling water and bassy chord progressions also tear hungrily at the song’s seams, establishing the album’s pulsing atmospheres of melancholy and menace.
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