Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum announced a new record today, False Lankum, out March 24, 2023 on Rough Trade Records.

False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s 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 beauty into each track.

This record sees the band cement their breakout from the folk genre, creating bold, contemporary music that may be fashioned from traditional elements but is firmly new, sitting comfortably alongside Rough Trade labelmates like black midi and Gilla Band. False Lankum also features two original tracks, ‘Netta Perseus’ and ‘The Turn’, both penned by the group’s Daragh Lynch.

Innerwoud is a one-man-band by Belgian double bass player and composer Pieter-Jan Van Assche. After playing in several bands, from folk to neoclassical, he started to perform mostly solo, giving the double bass all the available space to speak and sing.

The music is often referred to as ambient, drone and neoclassical. Drones are built live upon each other, layering different textures and sounds produced by the double bass. This results in a melancholic trip, wandering in wide open landscapes or craving in anonymous darkness, while the subtle melody shines a humble light on the whole.

Innerwoud has released a full album solo (Mirre, 2015), followed by collaborations with Treha Sektori (Grashelm, 2017) and Astrid Stockman (Haven, 2018), wrote music for several dance performances and is now a part of Dance of the Seven Veils: a contemporary opera directed by Aïda Gabriëls, featuring Colin H. Van Eeckhout (CHVE, Amenra) and many others.

In September 2022 he released his second full length album Furie, featuring nothing but a double bass. Innerwoud is a Consouling Sounds label artist.