- 2024-08-21
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MUSIC
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Fontaines D.C. Premieres New Song “In The Modern World” on BBC Radio 1
Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., consisting of Carlos O'Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan III (bass), Grian Chatten (vocals) and Tom Coll (drums), will release their fourth studio album “Romance” this Friday (August 23).
From the album, the band premiered a new song “In The Modern World” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is the fourth and final pre-release single, following “Here's The Thing”, “Favourite”, and “Starburster”.
It was written by Carlos O'Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Grian Chatten, and Tom Coll. Produced by James Ford.
The accompanying music video was directed by Luna Carmoon.
The band frontman Grian Chatten told Jack Saunders about the song, “The song is kind of more inspired by cinema than music. I think, you know, I mean, we spoke a lot about movies like 'Akira' and 'The Great Beauty' and like, sort of 'Blade Runner', stuff like that, things that feel like the end of the world. Obviously, there's a big dollop of Lana Del Rey inspiration in there as well.”- The album comprises a 11-track, produced by James Ford. It is their first album in two years since the 2022 album “Skinty Fia”.
Grian Chatten told Jack Saunders about the new album, “I think the whole record has a sort of directed by Tim Burton, feeling the better, in a way, and that's kind of what I thought about when it's just, we wanted it to be a sort of place that wasn't necessarily anchored in a real space, as an imaginary landscape and futuristic maybe, and something that we can kind of call around.” -
The band bassist Conor Deegan III continued, “I think that we were starting to look at ourselves our previous work, and our see it aging in front of us, or seeing ourselves age out of us. And we wanted to not go on to any kinds of tracks like we're appearing in front of us for our career and for what we could be as a band like I think a lot of bands could just continue on a certain route that they've laid out with music, and I think that that's quite comfortable or something, and it leads to some kind of kind of place and see.” - source : BBC Radio 1
