Skinty Fia
"2020’s A Hero’s Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London’s iconic Alexandra Palace. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as “the damnation of the deer”; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer."
The Irish post-punk band’s most demanding and musically adventurous album is also its most open-hearted, striking a perfect balance between tough and tender.
The Irish band returns with a third album of post-punk that fails to elevate its Bauhaus and Joy Division-aping tendencies
On their third album, the five-piece ambitiously broaden their style, making for a breathtaking collection that’s like nothing they’ve ever done before
Skinty Fia is a rich, full-bodied third entry in Fontaines DC's beautifully dark universe
If it wasn’t for Grian Chatten’s doomy vocals, this could be a different band to the one that made Dogrel
Production on the record confidently stretches the band’s sound to fill a stadium stage, without sacrificing their compelling friction between surly grit and romantic yearning
Fontaines D.C. return with Skinty Fia, a dark and moody album steeped in the history and politics of Ireland
It’s not often that an album accurately captures the collective mood of the planet’s global population, but Skinty Fia, the third album from Dublin five-piece Fontaines D.C., seems to do just that. Although time will be the ultimate judge, Skinty Fia—with its minor chord urgency and stunning statement of purpose—has all the ingredients to be the soundtrack of our times.
Epic scale meets Dublin wit – this is a big new album from Fontaines D.C. Skinty Fia expands the Irish group's scope impressively
With Skinty Fia Fontaines D.C. deliver a brooding post-punk sensual feast with a distinctly Irish flavor. Longing, alienation, and malice simmer under the surface.
Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C. album review by Adam Williams. The band's forthcoming release, arrives on April 22, 2022 via Partisan Records
On their third album, the Dublin alt-rockers trade in their punky full-pelt approach for measured, compelling insights
Jason Pierce’s songwriting will enthrall fans, while Bob Vylan’s will fire them up. Meanwhile, Fontaines DC offer a love letter to Dublin
What might be seen as the concluding part of a trilogy reveals a band maturing nicely
Incanting, declaiming, and growling, as if actual singing might prettify the Fontaines DC’s post-punk dirges, Grian Chatten has never sounded more aggrieved than he does on the Irish combo’s third album. Disarmingly, he also sounds younger on Skinty Fia than he did on the group’s brash debut, Dogrel (2019), and its startlingly seasoned follow-up, A Hero’s Death (2020).