“generational band grapples with heritage”
“Skinty Fia is a rich, full-bodied third entry in Fontaines DC's beautifully dark universe”
“Skinty Fia has two meanings. One refers, via a literal translation, to the extinction of the Irish deer; the other acts as the Irish-language equivalent of “for fuck’s sake”. For Fontaines D.C., the phrase evokes the sentiment and kinship of their culture, and that’s poetic when you consider the band’s success and trajectory; the path that’s taken them to get to Skinty Fia. If their debut album D”
“The Irish post-punk band’s most demanding and musically adventurous album is also its most open-hearted, striking a perfect balance between tough and tender.”
“Fontaines DC have been a lot of different things over the course of their brief career. Gobby upstarts, loudly proclaiming their own greatness – “my childhood was small, but I’m gonna be big,” crowed Grian Chatten on the opening track of the band’s 2019 debut – and surly self-doubters, prickly distrustful of their own success and acclaim: “Pigeonholed, coo’ed to death,” complained Chatten on its 2”
