One Leg One Eye - CRONE
Featuring founding Lankum member Ian Lynch.
Currently on a UK and European tour supporting Godspeed You! Black Emperor, before heading to Canada to support the solo project of Godspeed’s co-founder Efrim Manuel Menuck in May.
Previous praise from The Guardian and The Quietus.
CRONE is the second album from Lynch and Brennan, following on from 2022’s slowburn slab of ambient grit, ...And Take The Black Worm With Me. Bewildering, psychedelic and ultimately transcendental, the four tracks of One Leg One Eye’s CRONE shapeshift and morph endlessly in a coarse miasma. Traditional song structures and vocal melody are eschewed, instead the trio directly channel energies from the rich seams of mythological significance submerged below the Irish psyche. The anger, rage and beauty of the sovereignty goddess burn a consistent and deliberate line through the album in the form of obscure incantations and dire pronouncements, the gnarled sinews that bind it all together.
Just as the subject matter of the tracks delve deeper into Irish myth and the remote past, the temporal reality of the album reaches back into the bands prehistory, with the majority of it the material being recorded by Lynch and Brennan in 2021 before One Leg One Eye was conceived of as an entity with Brennan working on the CRONE project while Lynch worked on ...And Take The Black Worm With Me.
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Featuring founding Lankum member Ian Lynch.
Currently on a UK and European tour supporting Godspeed You! Black Emperor, before heading to Canada to support the solo project of Godspeed’s co-founder Efrim Manuel Menuck in May.
Previous praise from The Guardian and The Quietus.
CRONE is the second album from Lynch and Brennan, following on from 2022’s slowburn slab of ambient grit, ...And Take The Black Worm With Me. Bewildering, psychedelic and ultimately transcendental, the four tracks of One Leg One Eye’s CRONE shapeshift and morph endlessly in a coarse miasma. Traditional song structures and vocal melody are eschewed, instead the trio directly channel energies from the rich seams of mythological significance submerged below the Irish psyche. The anger, rage and beauty of the sovereignty goddess burn a consistent and deliberate line through the album in the form of obscure incantations and dire pronouncements, the gnarled sinews that bind it all together.
Just as the subject matter of the tracks delve deeper into Irish myth and the remote past, the temporal reality of the album reaches back into the bands prehistory, with the majority of it the material being recorded by Lynch and Brennan in 2021 before One Leg One Eye was conceived of as an entity with Brennan working on the CRONE project while Lynch worked on ...And Take The Black Worm With Me.
