Watch Fontaines D.C. debut new tune ‘It is Superb To Be Younger’ stay

Fontaines D.C. showcased their new tune ‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’ in Japan final night time (February 22) – test it out under.

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The band, who shared the James Ford produced observe earlier this week, dropped it into their set on the Toyosu PIT, in Tokyo.

Talking to NME, bassist Conor ‘Deego’ Deegan III this week defined how the tune was impressed by being “within the presence of a new child little one” – the kid of guitarist Carlos O’Connell, and the way that the tune was written across the identical time as their latest album ‘Romance‘ however was merely left off the report as they wished to maintain the LP “concise”. ‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’ will probably be launched on vinyl backed by the b-side ‘Earlier than You I Simply Neglect’ later this 12 months. Visit here to pre-order it.

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Forward of their present final night time, he additionally revealed that the 2 new songs could be getting into the stay set very quickly as soon as they’ve completed “figuring out the kinks”. Talking on the cellphone from a soundcheck in Osaka amidst their Japanese tour, Deego additionally revealed how the nation helped to form ‘Romance’.

“Our first go to to Japan was really a giant inspiration for the report and made a giant impression on us – Tokyo and that dream-like metropolis. It might be good to play [‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’] within the metropolis that helped encourage it.”

Together with the one, their present final night time additionally noticed them carry out a number of tracks from their new album together with the title observe, ‘Right here’s The Factor’ and ‘Starburster’.

Talking additional about ‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’, Deego added: “I’m glad it acquired to see the sunshine of day, as a result of it a particular tune to us. Extra so for the way in which it was written than the tune itself, in a bizarre means. It began life within the presence of Carlos’ new child and it’s only a message for her, .”

He continued: “It was actually heartwarming. Typically as folks we generally is a bit cynical. The world round us could make you that means when you’re paying consideration it. Typically optimism appears like a vital delusion, however with the beginning of a brand new little one we have been launched to a very pure and deep magnificence and hope that may’t be debated away by anybody jaded and even by ourselves.”

Requested concerning the b-side, Deego replied: “That may be a tune that Curley [Conor Curley] wrote and we completed off. I actually that tune. It’s acquired an incredible bassline and an actual sweetness to it within the vocals, however in a means that you simply’re sort of frightened concerning the particular person singing it as a result of it’s a bit manic. I’d say that it’s well-considered.”

Followers hoping that the brand new single is an indication of extra new materials dropping imminently might have to attend a little bit longer, however Deego did say that the band have been already at work on album quantity 5.

“It’s a type of issues the place we will’t cease writing – it’s one thing that we simply do once we’re with one another,” he advised NME. “We must always in all probability take a break from it as a result of it might be good to let the ‘Romance’ world simmer down a bit and open up our imaginations to one thing else. I feel we’ll simply maintain writing and keep linked to one another, then once we end up the tour we will get into the extra critical conceptualisation or no matter.”

Fontaines D.C. are within the midst of a stacked 12 months of worldwide touring in Japan, Australia and New Zealand (try the total listing of dates and get any remaining tickets right here) with the band returning to Europe and the UK for a run of giant outside headline exhibits and pageant appearances this summer time. Visit here for tickets and extra data.

Fontaines D.C. performed:

‘Romance’
‘Jackie Down The Line’
‘Televised Thoughts’
‘Roman Vacation’
‘Huge Shot’
‘Dying Kink’
‘Sundowner’
‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’
‘Huge’
‘A Hero’s Dying’
‘Right here’s The Factor’
‘Bug’
‘Horseness Is The Whatness’
‘Nabokov’
‘Boys In The Higher Land’
‘Favorite’

Encore:

‘Within the Fashionable World’
‘Need’
‘I Love You’
‘Starburster’