Suffering Jukebox

This week's episode features an interview with Tara, Sunny and Patrick from Bristol's Tara Clerkin Trio. Somewhere Good, Tara Clerkin Trio's latest album, will be released this coming Friday, June 5th, via World Of Echo. Find out more about Tara Clerkin Trio (and purchase their music) here: https://taraclerkintrio.bandcamp.com/music

Nick's Pick of the Week is One Leg One Eye's Crone, which was released on Friday May 22nd. You can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here; https://onelegoneeye.bandcamp.com/album/crone and my review can be read below.

One Leg One Eye: Crone (AD 93)

Released May 22nd 2026

One Leg One Eye is the (rather terrifying) side project of Ian Lynch from Lankum. Crone is their second LP, following 2022’s And Take The Black Worm With Me, and —as with their debut— also features co-conspirator George Brennan. 

Lankum’s music —for those who may be unfamiliar— dwells in the darker regions of the Irish folk canon, One Leg One Eye on the other hand, is completely consumed by darkness. Crone is occupied with the occult aspects of early Irish folklore: legends filled with ghosts, premonitions and an unquiet afterlife. This is midnight music, rich with atmosphere and with no shortage of dread.

Containing only four songs, two of which are in excess of ten minutes, Crone gasps and wheezes malevolently across its thirty-seven minutes, taking the listener on a journey that some will relish and few will want to repeat. Album opener, Many Are My Names Besides, begins with nothing but voice, before rapidly expanding into a cacophony of organ drones and electronic noise. Neither Fell Nor Flesh does much the same, commencing with a low, sustained note and then exploding in burst of wheezing static. What I Shall Follow, I Shall Hunt bears all the crepuscular charm of being stranded in the woods after dark, whilst Save What Birds Will Bear Away In Their Claws feels like an epic incantation for the end of days.

Crone is an exploratory piece of experimental music that is about as atmospheric as it comes. One Leg One Eye are without parallel when it comes to creating art that so willingly revels in the depths of darkness and the mists of the unknown. Some may find it beautiful, others will be horrified, but few will be unmoved.

Nick Stephan