Fontaines D.C. supporting Idles at Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
Only one place to be with our latest Track Of The Week after Fontaines D.C. returned with the lead single and title-track of their new album A Hero’s Death.
Out on July 31st, the LP’s first teaser was written, according to frontman Grian Chatten, ‘during a time where he felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up Dogrel’.
“But more broadly it’s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings,” he concluded. “The song is a list of rules for the self, they’re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread. It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that’s what happens to mantras when you test them over and over.”
