Album review
By Callum Warner-Webb
A hard hitting yet tender and artistic landmark in modern music.
The new age of punk is here.
Fontaines D.C christen punks new age with their debut album Dogrel. Featuring singles Big, Roys tune, Boys in the better land and Too real. The album is well and truly packed with beautifully poetic punk hits. No fillers here though. Each song is as strong and confident as the last when painting a gloomy picture cold wet Dublin.
Fontaines D.C. make their intentions painfully clear to the listener with their melancholic yet oddly optimistic collection of tracks.
Spoken word style vocals, repetitive lyrics turn these songs into instant belters. Learn them in a second and love them for life,“Dublin in the rain is mine” a phrase that resonates with even the most un-irish among us.
This is no beat poetry album though, 60’s Garage Rock and Roll lives on in their music with criminally energetic playing that often clamors into a cacophonic and atmospheric wall of sound
Contemporary songwriting with an unmissable Irish folk influence in every track, especially the albums final song Dublin City Sky a track that will surely be cried out in boozers across the country and will live in the hearts of the people of Ireland.
Romantic to say the least, these are unmistakable anthems of our generation.
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