“knockout, spiritual songs for the end of time”
“The Dublin quintet’s fourth LP is an essay of mosh-pit guitars careening into baggy desires and stringed visions of mercy, arriving like a stroke of violence that stretches itself around the cinema of living.”
“Fontaines D.C. manifest Romance's reality by dreaming big”
“Not since Arctic Monkeys has an A-list indie band’s sound evolved as quickly as that of Dublin-raised, London-based five-piece Fontaines DC – from the raw, post-punk stylings of 2019 debut Dogrel to the rich and expansive palette of this fourth album. Along the way, their inspirations have become progressively less parochial, the fixation on their home city giving way to tales of the Irish diaspor”
“Irish band's wildly expansive new LP might be their best yet”
“Irish band’s wildly expansive new LP might be their best yet”