Lankum – “Ghost Town” (The Specials Cover)

Here’s your actually-freaky Halloween soundtrack. Lankum, Dublin’s masters of doom-laden experimental folk music, have covered 2-tone kings the Specials’ 1981 spooky ska classic “Ghost Town.” Lankum originally recorded the cover for Oona Doherty’s dance show Specky Clark this year. Now, just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, it gets a music video by director Leonn Ward, filmed in County Wicklow. It basically sounds like the trailerized version of “Ghost Town,” but good.

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