Fontaines D.C. share teaser of recent music
Fontaines D.C. have shared a teaser of recent music within the type of a brief clip of an unreleased tune on social media.
The Irish band haven’t launched any new music since 2022’s third album ‘Skinty Fia’ (aside from a canopy of Nick Drake’s ‘Cello Tune’ for a compilation album), however plainly might quickly be about to vary.
Within the new 30-second clip, frontman Grian Chatten is seen topless and in vivid inexperienced trousers, with a black, swollen eye and heavy cuts and bruises throughout. He’s petting a pig, whereas the thriller tune performs excessive.
Watch the clip beneath:
@fontainesband Pig. #fontainesdc
“I wanna see you alone / I wanna sharp the stone / I wanna bounce the bone / I wanna mess with it”, Chatten sings in fast fireplace supply over a good, metronomic rhythm, with heavy, chiming guitar chords becoming a member of in in the direction of the tip of the excerpt.
In December, the band teamed up with Huge Assault and Younger Fathers to launch a restricted version 12” single to assist Médecins Sans Frontières of their aid efforts in Gaza.
“Fontaines DC be part of hundreds of thousands the world over in demanding an instantaneous 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 offer important care to the hundreds 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, nonetheless we do hope our small contribution to this report 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 tension and rage”.
The Irish musician, who launched his debut solo album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ final summer time, mirrored on how his perspective to touring has developed through the years.
“Round ‘A Hero’s Loss of life’, I used to be actually struggling to reshape myself to suit this new sort of way of life, and I used to be coping with fatigue… and psychological sickness; the despair that occurred,” he defined.
“The anxiousness was fairly intense as effectively. I used to be simply sick of not fucking dwelling 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.”
Chatten later additionally appeared on Kneecap’s single ‘Higher Approach To Reside’ in November final yr.