Grian Chatten has released his debut solo album today – have a listen on Live4ever.
Grian Chatten announced his first move away from Fontaines D.C. just last month after undertaking sessions with the band’s regular producer Dan Carey in the wake of inspiration which had been found in the tranquility of nature.
“I was walking along Stoney Beach at night and it came to me on the waves,” Chatten said. “I just stood there and looked at them and I heard the whole fucking thing. Every part of it, from the chord progressions to the string arrangements.”
I just thought: I want to do this myself. I know where we as a band are going next and that’s not where I want to go with this. I’ve got a couple of exaggerated aspects of my soul that I wanted to express. The rest of the band are all creative and songwriters in their own right, too. I didn’t want to go to them and be like, ‘No, every single thing has to be like this.’ I didn’t want to compromise with these songs in that way.