…AND TAKE THE BLACK WORM WITH ME is the debut One Leg One Eye album of the Lankum singer and musician Ian Lynch and George Brennan.
An expanded edition of debut album will be released on March 6th this year on the Cold Spring label on March 6th 2026, the same month the duo of Lynch and George Brennan (formerly of Deep Burial) go on tour with Canadian post-rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
One Leg One Eye explores “black metal, folk, noise and drone while also being deeply imbued with a sense of Irish history and myth.” and the original version of the album was released in October 2022.
The new version features a bonus track ‘Sympathetic Invertebrate Ritual’.
…AND TAKE THE BLACK WORM WITH ME
TRACKLIST
1 Glistening, She Emerges (8:32)
2 Sympathetic Invertebrate Ritual (7:10)
3 Bold And Undaunted Youth (13:31)
4 I’d Rather Be Tending My Sheep (11:55)
5 The Fancy Cannot Cheat So Well (6:22)
6 Only The Diceys (5:57)
It’s available on CD | Bandcamp CD & digital
2026 EUROPEAN TOUR
WITH GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR
1st March Tampere (FI) Tavara-asema
2nd March Tallinn (ES) Helitehas
3rd March Riga (LV) Hanzas Perons
4th March Vilnius (LT) Loftas
5th March Warsaw (PL) Progresja
6th March Poznan (PL) CK Zamek
3rd April Brussels (BE) AB Box
10th April London (UK) Troxy
11th April Antwerp (BE) Trix
12th April Eindhoven (NL) Effenaar Klokgebouw
13th April Antwerp (BE) Trix
14th April Reims (FR) La Cartonnerie
TICKETS
Over the course of a year, Lynch enjoyed the freedom of experimenting and exploring different paths of sound design without expectation or pressure. Seeking out interesting settings to record music and gather field recordings, he explored rediscovered spaces in Dublin and familiar interior spaces. He frequently visited the abandoned warehouse where his father had worked and sang with his shruti box, content in his solitude.
The result was ‘…And Take The Black Worm With Me’, an album with a distinct and sometimes harrowing drone-folk atmosphere conjured throughout its lengthy and enveloping compositions, an eerily beautiful sadness resonating throughout. Widely praised upon release in a long sold out CD pressing on Nyahh Records in 2022, Cold Spring now presents this incredible album with an exclusive bonus track, ‘Sympathetic Invertebrate Ritual’, that was recorded especially for this new edition.
Ian Lynch – hurdy gurdy, uilleann pipes, synth, vocals, shruti box,
concertina, guitar, sounds, tape
Ruth Clinton – organ
Laurie Sue Shanaman – vocals
Recorded by George Brennan
Mastered by Harvey Birrell
Mixed & Produced by John Murphy
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