2020’s A Hero’s Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London’s iconic Alexandra Palace.
Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as “the damnation of the deer”; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.
Track Listing:
A1 In ár gCroíthe go deo
A2 Big Shot
A3 How Cold Love Is
B1 Jackie Down The Line
B2 Bloomsday
C1 Roman Holiday
C2 The Couple Across The Way
C3 Skinty Fia
D1 I Love You
D2 Nabokov
