Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death (Partisan
Records)
Release Date: Out Now
2019 belonged, in part, to
Irishmen Fontaines D.C. so it’s great to see them not leaving it too long
before making their mark on 2020. ‘A Hero’s Death’ is the first single of the
forthcoming album and they’ve roped in Aidan Gillen for the video so we’re off
to a strong start. The bone rattling beat takes things up a notch, the Merseybeat
harmonies gives this a sense of the angelic and then those trademark deadpan
vocals let us know, repeatedly, “Life ain’t always empty”. This is the 2020
version of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Sunscream’ as the band reel off a list of advice for
us to live by, soundtracked by the cacophonous crescendo that the band build up
like a car driving at full pelt towards a cliff edge with brick on the accelerator.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/fontainesband/
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