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    LANKUM

    Sep 19, 2019 3 minutes
    By Rob Hughes

    The Livelong Day ROUGH TRADE

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    IT takes a certain nerve to sober up the most popular Irish drinking song of all time, especially for a band from Ireland. Dublin quartet Lankum have decided to do just that as an opener to their latest album, The Livelong Day, by giving “The Wild Rover” a bracingly different complexion.

    All connotations of a boozy knees-up are neglected in favour of an intense, hymnal

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