Album:Dogrel Artist:Fontaines DC Label:Partisan Records Genre:Alternative“Is it too real for yaaaaa?” Grian Chatten drawls on Too Real, a single partially inspired by TS Eliot’s Preludes. It is one of the killer tunes that have made Fontaines DC one of the most talked-about bands in Ireland and beyond. It is hard to think of another guitar-driven Irish album since Whipping Boy’s Heartworm that is as effective and potentially world-conquering. Holding Hands with Jamie by Girl Band, who sowed the seeds for the current harvest of confident Irish bands, is certainly far more innovative. The stark reality is that the Fontaines DC generation are adrift in a hyper-capitalist playground of extortionate rents and shameful levels of homelessness, and governed by a political elite who are chronically addicted to optics and spin.

Source: The Irish Times April 05, 2019 04:30 UTC