Fontaines D.C. share pummelling new single ‘Starburster’ and announce new album ‘ROMANCE’
Fontaines D.C. have shared their pummelling new single ‘Starburster‘ and introduced particulars of their fourth album ‘ROMANCE’. Test it out beneath.
Having been teasing the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed ‘Skinty Fia‘ over the previous week, now the Irish five-piece have introduced that they’ve signed to XL Recordings (Radiohead, King Krule, The xx) for fourth album ‘ROMANCE’ – produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Depeche Mode) and due this August.
The file comes launched by ‘Starburster’ – a music impressed by frontman Grian Chatten struggling a panic assault and accompanied by a sinister and cinematic video directed by Aube Perrie (Megan Thee Stallion, Harry Kinds, The Hives).
Reviewing the monitor, NME famous the way it seems to mark how the band have “taken an ideal left flip”, including: “Leaning on the Huge Assault trip-hop noir vibes first hinted at on ‘Skinty Fia’’s title monitor, ‘Starburster’ is a pensive art-rock beast that fuses components of electronica and hip-hop extra akin to their fellow placing countrymen (and up to date collaborators) KNEECAP as Chatten spits: “I’m gon hit your online business if it’s momentary blissness *BREEEAAAATHE*”.
“Bravado meets psychedelia because the frontman says he’s “over tougher than a turned up challenger” and “the pig on the Chinese language calendar”. The video, too – a fever dream of blood, animals and a solid of misfits looking for their means – additional helps their referencing of Shygirl and Sega Bodega as key inspirations.”
Learn the complete overview right here.
Talking concerning the title of the album, bassist Conor Deegan mentioned: “We’ve at all times had this sense of idealism and romance. Every album will get additional away from observing that via the lens of Eire, as straight as ‘Dogrel‘. The second album (‘A Hero’s Loss of life‘) is about that detachment, and the third (Skinty Fia) is about Irishness dislocated within the diaspora. Now we glance to the place and what else there’s to be romantic about.”
He added: “This file is about deciding what’s fantasy – the tangible world, or the place you go in your thoughts. What represents actuality extra? That feels nearly religious for us.”
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Chatten in the meantime, added that the album was impressed his “fascination” with “falling in love on the finish of the world”.
“The album is about defending that tiny flame,” he mentioned. “The larger armageddon looms, the extra treasured it turns into.”
Turning away from any “retro aesthetic”, Chatten added that ‘ROMANCE’ sees the band “say issues we’ve wished to say for a very long time. I by no means really feel prefer it’s over, but it surely’s good to really feel lighter.”
Fontaines D.C. launch ‘ROMANCE’ on August 23 by way of XL Recordings. Pre-order it here and take a look at the tracklist beneath:
1. ‘Romance’
2. ‘Starburster’
3. ‘Right here’s The Factor’
4. ‘Want’
5. ‘In The Fashionable World’
6. ‘Bug’
7. ‘Bike Boy’
8. ‘Sundowner’
9. ‘Horseness Is The Whatness’
10. ‘Loss of life Kink’
11. ‘Favorite’
‘Romance’ will mark Fontaines D.C.’s first unique music since their third album, 2022’s ‘Skinty Fia’. Since then, they’ve additionally lined Nick Drake’s ‘Cello Tune’ for a compilation album.
In December, the band teamed up with Huge Assault and Younger Fathers to announce the discharge of a restricted version 12” single to assist Médecins Sans Frontières of their reduction efforts in Gaza.The ‘Ceasefire’ EP will arrive on June 1.
The band might be touring Europe for pageant appearances all through summer time, together with a slot headlining Friday’s Park Stage at Glastonbury in June, and a return to Studying & Leeds’ essential stage in August. UK and US headline dates might be introduced shortly.