Watch Fontaines D.C. Carry out “Starburster” on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon”
Romance Due Out August 23 by way of XL
Might 08, 2024
Irish five-piece Fontaines D.C. are releasing a brand new album, Romance, on August 23 by way of XL. Final evening the band have been the musical visitors on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the place the band carried out the album’s first single, “Starburster.” Watch the efficiency under.
“Starburster” was shared by way of a music video and was #1 on our Songs of the Week listing.
Then they introduced a fall North American tour. The one-month trek runs from September 20 to October 20 and NYC band Been Stellar would be the opening act.
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 Loss of life, 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 have 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 earlier press launch, Deegan stated of the album title: “We’ve all the time had this sense of idealism and romance. Every album will get additional away from observing that via 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 may be to be romantic about.”
Chatten relates the theme of the album to Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s 1988 anime film traditional Akira, the place, because the press launch put 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 stated. “The album is about defending that tiny flame. The larger Armageddon looms, the extra treasured it turns into.”
O’Connell added: “This document is about deciding what’s fantasy—the tangible world, or the place you go in your thoughts. What represents actuality extra? That feels virtually non secular for us.”
In 2023 Chatten launched his debut solo album, Chaos For the Fly. Learn our interview with him about it right here.
Fontaines D.C. North American Tour Dates:
September 20 – Showbox SoDo – Seattle, WA
September 21 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
September 22 – Commodore Ballroom – Vancouver, BC
September 24 – The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
September 26 – Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA
September 27 – SOMA – San Diego, CA
September 28 – Fox Theater – Pomona, CA
September 30 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
October 2 – Gothic Theatre – Englewood, CO
October 4 – The Granada – Lawrence, KS
October 5 – Slowdown – Omaha, NE
October 6 – The Sylvee – Madison, WI
October 8 – The Fillmore – Minneapolis, MN
October 9 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL
October 11 – Queen Elizabeth Theatre – Toronto, ON
October 12 – MTELUS – Montreal, QC
October 13 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA
October 15 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
October 18 – 9:30 Membership – Washington, DC
October 20 – The Fillmore – Philadelphia, PA