We all are having to deal with this difficult future we find ourselves in, where life & love are both easier and harder. While many just look to the past with reunions and retreads, Fontaines D.C. engage in what we are dealing with now, in the diverse Romance.
Both labeled as punks and as post-punk, the boys from Dublin are almost post-post-punk, eschewing genres and just doing whatever they can to get what they want out there. They’re probably best known for their unique mix of grime rap & punk on songs such as killer single “Starburster” and the tragic “Death Kink”, but Romance also has distant acoustic sorrow (“Motorcycle Boy”), straightforward indie-rock (“Here’s the Thing”), and even grime beauty (“Bug”). There’s the tragedy of modern life in “In the Modern World”, but also some catchy hope to close out with on “Favourite”.
Instead of giving up on this world and losing oneself in nostalgia & navel-gazing, grapple with today, in whatever way you can, like Fontaines D.C. on Romance.
