Last year the FT reported on an exciting new wave of bands emerging from Ireland. Among them: Fontaines DC, a five-piece from Dublin (the “DC” stands for “Dublin City”), about whose 2019 debut album, Dogrel, much fuss was made. Their music is guitar-based, propulsive, and often somewhat doomy — a tendency accentuated on their second album, A Hero’s Death, which we are told reflects the inevitable pressures and sense of dislocation that come with being one of the exciting new wave of bands emerging from Ireland. Out go the stories and characters of Dogrel; in comes a more abstract flow of words and thoughts, often expressed as mantras, against metronomic beats: “I don’t belong to anyone”; “Love is the main thing”; “Televised mind”; “Life ain’t always empty”.
Singer Grian Chatten expresses all of this with his native accent intact, which is refreshing; less so is the fact that he can be a bit of a foghorn (his voice is also treated with too much reverb). Poppy ba-ba-backing vocals on the title track soften its impact somewhat, as does the dramatic double-tracking on “Televised Mind”.
Fontaines DC are at their best here when they discover (or rediscover) their raw energy, on tracks such as “Televised Mind” and especially on the album’s high point, “I Was Not Born”, with its scratchy Stooges-ish three-chord riff and tom-tom beats: it’s visceral and, yes, exciting.
★★★☆☆
‘A Hero’s Death’ is released by Partisan Records
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July 31, 2020 at 07:40PM
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