One Leg One Eye

One Leg One Eye is the solo outlet of Ian Lynch, who co-founded the Dublin group Lankum with his brother Daragh. In Lankum he sings and plays uilleann pipes, and that band's slow, heavy treatment of old ballads is the starting point here. On his own, Lynch strips the arrangements back to sustained tones and dense layers of sound, with the traditional melodies surfacing only slowly through the drone.