Fontaines D.C. share taster of latest music and darkish Kubrick-esque teaser for brand new album ‘Romance’
Fontaines D.C. are persevering with to tease new music with a Stanley Kubrick-inspired clip forward of their new album ‘Romance’.
The Irish post-punk group began to trace at new music final week with a 30-second clip during which frontman Grian Chatten is seen topless and in shiny inexperienced trousers, with a black, swollen eye and heavy cuts and bruises throughout. He’s petting a pig, whereas the thriller track performs excessive.
Now, they’ve adopted that clip with a brand new 90-second visualiser that takes inspiration from Kubrick’s The Shining. It options an empty hallway with two small brown armchairs sitting reverse one another, adjoining from an orange set of elevator doorways in a transparent nod to the enduring 1980 movie. Nevertheless, the place within the movie the doorways open to disclose a river of blood, Fontaines’ clip makes use of inexperienced gunge pouring out of the doorways as a substitute.
The track taking part in the background begins eerie and gradual, over which Chatten sings: “Into the darkness once more / In with the pigs within the pen / God is aware of I really like you / Screws in my head /nI might be beside you until you’re useless.” Because the music swells and turns into extra intense, the neon inexperienced gunge gushes out of the doorways.
Take a look at the ‘Romance’ teaser beneath:
‘Romance’ will mark Fontaines D.C.’s first unique music since 2022’s ‘Skinty Fia’. Since then, they’ve additionally coated Nick Drake’s ‘Cello Tune’ for a compilation album.
In December, the band teamed up with Large Assault and Younger Fathers to launch a restricted version 12” single to help Médecins Sans Frontières of their aid efforts in Gaza.
“Fontaines DC be part of hundreds of thousands internationally in demanding a direct ceasefire and a everlasting finish to Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine,” they wrote on the time.
“Since October, Medical doctors With out Borders have been on the bottom in Gaza, the place each human is an IDF goal, risking their lives to present very important care to the 1000’s injured by Israel’s indiscriminate assaults on the ravenous and defenceless. We really feel completely helpless in what we are able to do at this level, nevertheless we do hope our small contribution to this file can increase some desperately wanted funds for Medical doctors With out Borders in Gaza. Ceasefire Now. Free Palestine.”
Chatten opened up in an interview with NME final yr about struggling psychological well being points whereas touring, revealing he beforehand skilled “suits of hysteria and rage”.
The Irish musician, who launched his debut solo album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ final summer time, mirrored on how his angle to touring has developed through the years.
“Round ‘A Hero’s Demise’, I used to be actually struggling to reshape myself to suit this new sort of life-style, and I used to be coping with fatigue… and psychological sickness; the despair that occurred,” he defined.
“The nervousness was fairly intense as nicely. I used to be simply sick of not fucking residing wherever for 5 years. I didn’t even take into consideration the truth that half a decade had handed with out me feeling like I belonged wherever exterior of a tour bus.”