Fontaines D.C. Announce New Album 'A Hero's Death', Share Title Track
Wednesday, 06 May 2020
Written by Sophie Williams
Photo: Richard Dumas
Fontaines D.C. have confirmed details of their second LP.
‘A Hero’s Death’ will arrive on July 31 via Partisan Records, and will feature the newly shared lead single of the same name. The steely track arrives with a surreal video, which follows Game Of Thrones star Aidan Gillen as he plays a wired up talk show host experiencing hallucinations. Singer Grian Chatten said:
"The song is a list of rules for the self, they’re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread. It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that's what happens to mantras when you test them over and over. There’s this balance between sincerity and insincerity as the song goes on and you see that in the music video as well. That’s why there’s a lot of shifting from major key to minor key. The idea was influenced by a lot of the advertising I was seeing – the repetitive nature of these uplifting messages that take on a surreal and scary feel the more you see them.
“The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up ‘Dogrel.’ But more broadly it’s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings."
The new album follows the Dublin punks’ critically adored debut, 2019’s ‘Dogrel’.
'A Hero's Death' tracklist:
I Don’t Belong
Love Is The Main Thing
Televised Mind
A Lucid Dream
You Said
Oh Such A Spring
A Hero’s Death
Living In America
I Was Not Born
Sunny
No
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