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  • Summary: The second full-length release from Irish folk quartet Landless was produced by John "Spud" Murphy,
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Jul 5, 2024
    100
    Lúireach is a collection of 10 sublime songs, many of them about bold women.
  2. Uncut
    Jul 5, 2024
    80
    he power of Landless lies in their own exquisitely intertwined four-part vocal harmonies, which add spine-tingling beauty to even the most fatalistic lyric, from an achingly gorgeous rework of traditional Celtic heartbreak lament “Blackwaterside” to the adventurously chosen Slovak-language ballad “Ej Husari”, a radiantly lovely murmuration of swooping, cooing, chirruping voices. [Jul 2024, p.35]
  3. Mojo
    Jul 5, 2024
    80
    Unearthly. [Jul 2024, p.91]
  4. The Wire
    Jul 5, 2024
    80
    Landless’s four singers Méabh Meir, Lily Power, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch spin tightly woven harmonies with crystalline precision over beds of drones. However the album is less doomy than might be expected from a Murphy-produced album – or maybe it’s just that these voices sparkle with light and life, even as they sing about encounters with death. [Aug 2024, p.52]