A Hero’s Death, nouvel opus de Fontaines D.C.

DÉCOUVREZ LE PREMIER SINGLE / VIDEO DU TITRE DE L’ALBUM AVEC AIDAN GILLEN (GAME OF THRONES, PEAKY BLINDERS, THE WIRE)

Un an depuis que leur premier album “Dogrel” leur a valu une place parmi les nouveaux groupes les plus acclamés de 2019, les Dublinois de Fontaines D.C. reviennent avec “A Hero’s Death” le 31 juillet 2020 via Partisan Records. Agité et meurtri – quoique superbe – l’album est tout sauf une copie de l’audacieuse énergie de leur premier essai. Au contraire, la musique y est patiente, confiante et complexe – une prise de vue unique et philosophique sur le monde moderne et sa grande incertitude.

Découvrez le premier extrait et titre de l’album dont la video met en scène Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire, Peaky Blinders) et qui souligne l’intensité hypnotique du morceau en ajoutant une couche inquiétante de surréalisme:

Le chanteur Grian Chatten évoque en parlant de la video:
« 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. »