“all the joy and despair of youth is here”
“Fontaines D.C. take a juggernaut stride forward on A Hero’s Death”
“Heady, funny, and fearless, the Dublin band’s second album is a maudlin and manic triumph, a horror movie shot as comedy, equal parts future-shocked and handcuffed to history.”
“excoriating anthems about flirting with self-destruction”
“After turning heads on their debut, Dogrel, last year, the post-punks flirt with psychedelia and echoey guitar while their singer stands his ground”
“Making sense of newfound fame and infinite tour schedules, it’s no surprise Dublin post-punks Fontaines D.C. are feeling a little burnt out. Swept up by the whirlwind of success generated by 2019’s Dogrel, frontman Grian Chatten’s once-ambitious declaration of intent, “My childhood was small / But I’m gonna be big!” prophesised a blink-of-an-eye rise to prominence; an uncompromising mission statem”
