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“Depending on your folk knowledge, you’ll know anything between one and all the songs on John Francis Flynn’s second album. What will be unfamiliar to all, however, is Flynn’s wonderfully strange interpretations of these eight traditional songs: this is a folk album in name only, light years from any musty hey-nonny-nonny reverence, imbued instead with, variously, electronic drone skronk, scratchy ”
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“A traditional singer and stalwart of Dublin’s pub scene, John Francis Flynn released his 2021 debut, I Would Not Live Always, to something like critical delirium. Its vision was jarring, its balladry set to arrangements entwining guitar, fiddle and the like with synth and tape loops, displacing old songs to new times while keeping Flynn’s rich, sonorous vocals at its heart. On this second album he”