Lankum - Ghost TownRough Trade Records are excited to announce a new stand alone single by Lankum. Originally created for an Oona Doherty dance show Specky Clark at Sadlers Well earlier this year, the single is a devastatingly powerful and otherworldly interpretation of The Specials 1981 number one Ghost Town. Ghost Town will be released on 12 vinyl format in Jan 2026 featuring an elaborate etching on the b side. Lankum explain how the track came about; Ghost Town came

PetroDragonic Apocalypse is no mere retread of Rats’ Nest’s gory glories

That year the Mondays made a generation feel like the freaks were winning again

The release features rare photos from Sun Ra's 1973 European tour by photographer Jan Persson with sleeve notes by the Arkestra's Knoel Scott

In The Beginning

and plays with a little crackle

To that end

but it wasn’t

The Ink in The Well and Pulling Punches

with its colourful

Recorded at Brooklyn’s Studio G in summer 2018

To say that the first full-length from the Melbourne quintet improves on their buzz-building EPs from the last few years would be an understatement: the promise those early releases hinted at is fully realized here

Insight (Feat