Grian Chatten by Eimear Lynch
Grian Chatten’s video has been directed by Georgie Jesson.
Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten has shared his debut solo track today.
Written during some rare downtime for Fontaines after the success of last year’s Skinty Fia record, The Score is described by Chatten as a, ‘heavyweight bated breath of lust’:
I wrote it in Madrid between an electric fan and a dying plant and I intend to keep it there. It was inspired by sugar and sunset.
A Live4ever album of 2022, Skinty Fia was lauded in our review as a, ‘circle-closing masterpiece‘:
“Skinty Fia’s making saw the band listening to Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR and the gothic trip-hop of Death In Vegas’ Contino Sessions; the latter’s influence is plain in the scuzzy wind of the title-track.”
“What is clear is that there’s a resolute, almost hubristic confidence in wherever this goes. Bloomsday – which traverses their constantly imperfect relationship with Dublin – has a portentous echo of Joy Division, but it’s Jackie Down The Line that chills and thrills the most, a catalogue of threats-to-music in which the anger runs to impotence, its ‘la la las’ deadpan escapees from the random hit a stranger drowned at birth.”
