Dublin, IE · post-punk · alt-rock

Fontaines D.C.

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Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock — 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.

Fontaines D.C. formed in Dublin in 2014, the members meeting at music college and bonding over poetry before writing songs together. Grian Chatten sings in a flat, insistent Dublin accent over guitar interplay from Carlos O'Connell and Conor Curley, with Conor Deegan III on bass and Tom Coll on drums. Their early work drew on post-punk's driving repetition and on writing about the city itself.

Later albums widened the sound considerably, taking in shoegaze textures, Britpop-scale melody and, on "Romance", a darker and more colourful pop palette. The band has moved from small venues to arenas over the course of five albums, and has been outspoken about Irish identity and politics.

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