ARGUABLY THE most exciting band to emerge from Ireland in recent years, Fontaines DC release their new album next month and play Galway in December.
The band play Leisureland, Salthill, on Saturday December 3. Meanwhile, the new album, Skinty Fia, comes out on April 22 via Partisan Records. A taste of the album has already been given via the atmospheric single, ‘Jackie Down The Line’.
Skinty Fia sees the band - Carlos O’Connell (guitar ), Conor Curley (guitar ), Conor Deegan III (bass guitar ), Grian Chatten (vocals ), and Tom Coll (drums ) - again working with producer Dan Carey, who they also worked with on 2020’s UK #2, BRIT and Grammy-nominated A Hero’s Death, and their Mercury Music Prize shortlisted 2019 debut, Dogrel. Recently, the Fontaines won 'Best Band In The World' at the 2022 BandLab NME Awards.
The track listing for Skinty Fia is: ‘In ár gCroíthe go deo’, ‘Big Shot’, ‘How Cold Love Is’, ‘ Jackie Down The Line’, ‘Bloomsday’, ‘Roman Holiday’, ‘The Couple Across The Way’, ‘Skinty Fia’, ‘I Love You’, ‘Nabokov’.
The album’s cover art features a deer, plucked from its natural habitat and deposited in the hallway of a home, illuminated by an artificial red glow. The Irish giant deer is an extinct species and the band’s thoughts on Irish identity are central to Skinty Fia.
For a band whose hometown courses through their veins - DC stands for Dublin City - the album finds them trying to resolve the need to broaden their horizons with the affection they still feel for the land and people they have left behind.
This is a ‘Singular Artists & Strange Brew present...’ concert. Tickets are available via https://www.roisindubh.net
