Fontaines DC seem to be racing through their career like a timelapse nature documentary. The Dublin rock band have gone from brash punk debut to sophisticated experimental third album in just three years, ascending from playing clubs to major London venues the Eventim Apollo and Alexandra Palace in the same short spell, and winning a Brit Award too.
Now we’re already at the point where the singer goes solo, thankfully leapfrogging the stage where drug-fuelled egos make everybody hate each other. It sounds like Grian Chatten is actually being a thoughtful bandmate by keeping these nine songs for himself. “The rest of the band are all creative and songwriters in their own right, too. I didn’t want to go to them and be like, ‘No, every single thing has to be like this,’” he has said.
