Fontaines D.C. have unveiled a second track from their upcoming LP, ‘A Hero’s Death’.
I Don’t Belong is a brooding and grungy slow-burn that opens the follow-up to their 2019 Mercury Prize-nominated debut ’Dogrel’, with the previously released eponimous single further down the tracklist.
The Dublin band’s second LP is due out on July 31 on Partisan Records. Singer Grian Chatten says of I Don't Belong:
"This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you. We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-Big [opening song on 'Dogrel'], which is why we put it as the first song on the new album. This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it's also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness.
"One verse is about a soldier who has his bravery commended by his country, but throws his medal down and refuses to accept the commendation. He sees it as a hijacking and commodification of his principles. The other verse is about someone causing a ruckus in a bar, refusing to be enticed by any sort of friendliness and kindness, wanting to remain in the wrong corner. I had a few cans before I recorded the vocals, I wanted it to sound like I was playing the role of embittered barfly and feel like the soundtrack of someone swaying themselves home after a cold night out - full of principles but surrounded by nobody."
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