Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia (CD)
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Dublin's finest have spent their career wrestling with questions of Irish identity, displacement, and what it means to carry a culture with you when you leave home. Skinty Fia sharpens that tension to a point, arriving as the band settled into life in London and felt the pull of the homeland grow both stronger and more complicated. It's the sound of a group finding their political voice without losing the post-punk rawness that made them essential in the first place.
2020's A Hero's Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London's iconic Alexandra Palace. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as 'the damnation of the deer'; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.
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UPC: 720841301622
Label: Partisan Records
Release Date: 4.22.22
Format: CD