A Hero's Death
Heady, funny, and fearless, the Dublin band’s second album is a maudlin and manic triumph, a horror movie shot as comedy, equal parts future-shocked and handcuffed to history.
The Dubliners' massively successful debut album ‘Dogrel’ almost destroyed them. One year on, they sift through the fragments that remain
Just over a year after their critically lauded debut, Fontaines D.C. are back for more — and this time around, things are different.
If you thought another rollicking, rabble-rouser was on the cards, it’s time to think again.
The Irish band aren’t scared of admitting their own insecurities on this impressive follow-up to their Mercury Prize-shortlisted debut
This is not more of the same from the Dublin post-punk band – instead, 'A Hero's Death' takes Fontaines DC's sound to new places
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Fontaines D.C.’s 2019 debut, Dogrel, placed them among IDLES and Girl Band as rising stars of the post-punk revival, but with an especially literate and distinctly Irish bend to their music.
Within fourteen months Fontaines D.C. went from playing a genial, sweaty show at The Good Mixer to selling out Brixton Academy. The band’s explosive
Having been blindsided by their meteoric rise to fame, Fontaines D.C. follow up their debut with a more introspective, dissociative second album
A Hero's Death by Fontaines D.C. album review by Leslie Chu. The full-length comes out on July 31st via Partisan Records and streaming services
The Dublin band deliver a difficult but powerful second album full of songwriting that stares life in the face
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death review: Another promising effort from an up and coming band, brought down only by a lack of variation
The Dubliners return, bowed but not beaten by success. New music review by Katherine Reilly