This is how Spider Stacy, the Pogues tin-whistle player-singer put it when we talked recently: “Lankum’s new album is ‘The ... of the traditional Irish drinking song and hell-raiser ...

He may not be Irish ... This CD is his sixth full-length album. Monday, he played two tunes down at Performance Square, one of his original songs and one of his drinking tunes.

In recent years traditional Irish music has been awash ... a collection of plaintive slow airs and songs that would still a stampeding herd. A concept album in the best sense, Fé Scáthpays ...