A Hero’s Death, the second studio record from Fontaines D.C., is our editor’s pick of the albums reviewed on these pages during the past seven days – revisit the review and have a listen via Spotify:
“Asked recently what he most liked about Fontaines D.C., legendary guitar maverick Johnny Marr said simply: ‘They’re a band’.”
“This is of course self-evident – the Dublin based quintet have been especially visible over the last two years, touring incessantly behind the release of 2019’s Dogrel, a riotous love letter to their adopted home city which lived up to their considerable promise.”
“The former Smiths man didn’t mean anything that banal of course; his comment was an observation on the group’s collective obsessions and relationships, a bond which is fully realised by friends who place art and music on a pedestal way above any functional need for recognition and the indignity of fame.”
