Fontaines D.C. have introduced the coming in their fourth studio album, Romance, due out on August 23 by way of XL Recordings.
Along the scoop, the Irish post-punks have unveiled the album’s explosive first unmarried, Starburster.
Talking of the approaching challenge’s theme, bassist Conor Deegan says, “We’ve at all times had this feeling of idealism and romance. Every album will get additional clear of watching that in the course of the lens of Eire, as at once as Dogrel.
“The second one album (A Hero’s Demise) is set that detachment, and the 3rd (Skinty Fia) is set Irishness dislocated within the diaspora. Now we glance to the place and what else there may be to be romantic about.”
Turning to Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s anime Akira for inspiration, vocalist Grian Chatten says: “I’m enthusiastic about that – falling in love on the finish of the sector,” he says. “The album is set protective that tiny flame. The larger Armageddon looms, the extra valuable it turns into”.
Guitarist Carlos O’Connell provides: “This file is set deciding what’s fable – the tangible international, or the place you cross to your thoughts. What represents truth extra? That feels virtually non secular for us.”
Watch the video for Starburster underneath:
Later this yr, Fontaines D.C. will hit the street to advertise the brand new album, with excursion stops together with gala’s similar to Glastonbury, Studying & Leeds.
Romance tracklist:
1. Romance
2. Starburster
3. Right here’s The Factor
4. Need
5. In The Fashionable International
6. Trojan horse
7. Motorbike Boy
8. Sundowner
9. Horseness is the Whatness
10. Demise Kink
11. Favorite