Irish drone-doom-folk act One Leg One Eye, the project of founding Lankum member Ian Lynch
and veteran noise monger George Brennan, announce their new album, CRONE, out on 1 May
on AD 93.
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.