Cold old fire

"If committed, atmospheric, wyrd and yes, at times slightly oddball or addled performance of folk music (not just Irish in origin, but with its roots and branches in other British traditions) is your thing, you really couldn't spend close on 70 minutes (...) in better musical company than with this inordinately fine Lynched CD".

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"There's something marvellously audacious about the energising back-to-basics simplicity on display here. Faultless four-part vocal harmonies weave through arrangements for uilleann pipes, concertina, Russian accordian, fiddle and guitar to chilling effect on the Incredible String Band cover "Cold days of February" and deliriously so on the knockabout "Daffodil Mulligan". Daragh Lynch's gravel-encrusted vocals channel the ghost of Ronnie Drew in "Father had a Knife". There's a dark poetic thread here too, in the hypnotic English ballad "The Old Man From over the Sea" and the righteous anger of the title track. Re-minting the rough-hewn vivacity of the Dubliners in their youthful pomp, the street-ballad heritage of Frank Harte and the folk music urgency of Planxty, "Cold Old Fire" is a sure contender for any Irish album of the year list".

"Lynched are taking the music in very interesting directions and they are certainly providing a breath of fresh air in our (sometimes) dusty corridors. Given their obvious enthusiasm - and respect - for the traditions in which their music is rooted, I can foresee a long and thought-provoking future for them".

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"Folk music can still be innovative and exciting as shown by this debut from Dublin band Lynched. A variety of styles and influences have collided on Cold Old Fire to make it the most exciting album of traditional Irish song in decades. It's the raw, punk injected delivery of some traditional songs that make Lynched such a potent force. Their sharp nasal Dublin accents are somehow ingrained with an incredibly authentic and new sound that hasn't been heard since the Dubliners or Pogues burst onto the scene".