Lankum side-project One Leg One Eye announce new album Crone with Olwen Fouéré collaboration

Lead single "Many are my Names Besides" features legendary Irish actor, writer and director Olwen Fouéré (Operating Theatre) on vocals. The song draws directly from Irish mythology, with Fouéré invoking the Morrigan, a war goddess often depicted as a crow and associated with sovereignty and death prophecy.

“When Ian and George first approached me to work with them, they were already creating the Crone album as a sonic invocation of the ‘sovereignty goddess’, who personifies the land and the legitimacy to rule it, in her darkest and most terrifying form,” Fouéré says. “The voice recording was done in one day, improvising the source material while the already composed music occupied my psyche through headphones.”

The four-track LP follows the duo’s 2022 debut …And Take The Black Worm With Me, a collection of ambient drone pieces partly recorded in an abandoned Dublin factory. Much of the material was actually recorded in 2021, before One Leg One Eye existed as a formal entity. Brennan worked on the Crone sessions while Lynch was simultaneously finishing the debut.

One Leg One Eye are currently touring the UK and Europe as support for Godspeed You! Black Emperor. In May they head to Canada to support Efrim Manuel Menuck’s solo project, followed by a UK headline tour in June that includes a London date at ICA on 20 June.

Crone artwork

Crone tracklist

“Many are my Names Besides”
“Neither Fell nor Flesh”
“What I shall Follow, I Shall Hunt”
“Save What Birds Will Bear Away in Their Claws”