Fontaines D.C.'s new album Romance will be released this August and the band have shared the first single from the upcoming release Starburster.
Romance is the acclaimed Irish band’s fourth album and it sees them working for the first time with producer James Ford, who has previously worked with The Last Dinner Party and Blur.
It follows the London-based band’s acclaimed 2022 album Skinty Fia, which reached number 1 in the Irish and UK album charts and saw the band receiving a host of accolades including International Group of the Year at the 2023 BRIT Awards.
New single Starburster was inspired by a panic attack lead singer Grian Chatten suffered in London’s St Pancras station.
Fontaines D.C., who are Chatten (vocals), Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan (bass), and Tom Coll (drums), began wiring the 11-track album while touring the U.S. and Mexico with Arctic Monkeys.
Speaking about the new album’s title, Deegan says, "We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance.
"Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as (Mercury Prize-nominated debut) Dogrel. The second album (the Gammy-nominated A Hero’s Death) is about that detachment, and the third (Skinty Fia) is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora. Now we look to where and what else there is to be romantic about."
The tracklisting for Romance is: Starburster, Here’s The Thing, Desire, In The Modern World, Bug, Motorcycle Boy, Sundowner, Horseness is the Whatness, Death Kink, Favourite.
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