Fontaines D.C. Announce New Album, Share Video for New Track “Starburster”
Romance Due Out August 23 by way of XL
Apr 17, 2024
Images by Theo Cottle
Irish five-piece Fontaines D.C. have introduced a brand new album, Romance, and shared the album’s first single, “Starburster,” by way of a music video. Romance is due out August 23 by way of XL, their first for the label. Aube Perrie directed the “Starburster” video. Watch it under, adopted by the album’s tracklist and canopy paintings.
Romance is the band’s fourth album, the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed Skinty Fia (which was #1 on each the UK and Irish album charts), 2020’s Grammy-nominated A Hero’s Demise, and 2019’s Mercury Prize-nominated Dogrel. It finds them working with producer James Ford for the primary time.
The band was fashioned in Dublin however is now based mostly in London and options Grian Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums). Concepts for the brand new album began to kind whereas they had been touring the U.S. and Mexico with Arctic Monkeys. Then the band members went their separate methods for some time, earlier than reconvening for a 3 weeks of pre-production in a North London studio and one month of recording in a chateau close to Paris.
In a press launch, Deegan says of the album title: “We’ve at all times had this sense of idealism and romance. Every album will get additional away from observing that by means of the lens of Eire, as instantly as Dogrel. The second album is about that detachment, and the third is about Irishness dislocated within the diaspora. Now we glance to the place and what else there’s to be romantic about.”
Chatten relates the theme of the album to Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s 1988 anime film basic Akira, the place, because the press launch places it, “the embers of affection develop regardless of a maelstrom of technological degradation and political corruption round its characters.”
“I’m fascinated by that—falling in love on the finish of the world,” he says. “The album is about defending that tiny flame. The larger Armageddon looms, the extra valuable it turns into.”
O’Connell provides: “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 virtually religious for us.”
In 2023 Chatten launched his debut solo album, Chaos For the Fly. Learn our interview with him about it right here.
Romance Tracklist:
1. Romance
2. Starburster
3. Right here’s the Factor
4. Need
5. Within the Trendy World
6. Bug
7. Motorbike Boy
8. Sundowner
9. Horseness is the Whatness
10. Demise Kink
11. Favorite
