Irish folk group Lankum release their interpretation of the traditional folk song 'Newcastle' in the lead up to their new album False Lankum. The group, consisting of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat have made a name for themselves making shadowy folk music, reinterpreting traditional songs and composing their own they utilise intense drone textures to make music that is as beautiful as it is ominous. The origins of latest track from the upcoming record dates back hundreds of years as the band explain, “We learned this song from Seán Fitzgerald of The Deadlians, whose mother Pauline sang it to him as a child. The tune was first published in ‘The English Dancing Master’ (1651) where it is simply entitled ‘Newcastle’, while the words may be related to a broadside ballad printed in 1620 and entitled ‘The contented Couckould, Or a pleasant new Songe of a New-Castle man whose wife being gon from him, shewing how he came to London to her, & when he found her carried her backe againe to New-Castle Towne." False Lankum is set for release on Rough Trade Records on the 24th of March. -Toby Evans-Jesra