The Irish quintet, Fontaines D.C., presents its second album, A Hero\'s Death in concert on 10 March at the La Riviera hall. Its debut album, Dogrel (2019), nominated for the NME Awards and the Mercury Prize, made them last year’s post-punk revelation band and one of the most acclaimed bands.
Fontaines D.C. is a post-punk band from Dublin (Ireland) which got together in 2017. Its debut studio album, Dogrel, was released on 12 April 2019, and since then, it has not stopped composing new music.
Its city, like the New York of The Strokes or the Manchester of Joy Division and The Smiths, is so present in its songs that they can almost be read as a psycho-geographical journey through it and the emotions transmitted. The new Dogrel album is essentially a genre of Irish poetry from a few centuries ago and even from the beginning of the 20th century.
Indeed, its members used to write poems and recite them in bars, a practice that they claimed preserved a popular culture that was about to disappear.
The band led by Grian Chatten clings to the sense of community of the former working class tavern culture. In the last song, Dublin City Sky, they pay an open tribute to Shane McGowan, the leader of The Pogues, almost designed to be sung among pints of Guiness along with the classic, Dirty Old Town.
With a sound of post punk tension, the words of the first album, Dogrel, reveal emotions in a constant fight with each other: rage, intelligence, melancholia, sarcasm, discomfort, confusion, insolence, disorientation and, of course, romanticism. Their latest album, A Hero/’s Death can be hears on the tour that will stop off at La Riviera hall on 10 March.
