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Fontaines D.C. at Alexandra Palace review: intoxicating, playful and visceral

5/5 The band are clearly having fun in this latest era – and honestly, the feeling’s mutual

Evening Standard

“Shredding is an amazing thing to be able to do, but when you can really write a feeling with a melody, like Johnny Marr did so well, that’s the goal”: Conor Curley of Fontaines D.C. on his love of Deftones and why he’s writing riffs like a beginner

Romance is the sound of self-confessed “guitar culture nerd” Curley expanding the Fontaine D.C. sound with elemental reasoning, pure instinct, and occasional Mellotron – and if he ever gets stuck for inspiration, he has a pile of Total Guitar back issues to reference…

Guitar World

“When I heard Nirvana’s Live at Reading it became less about learning solos than putting the guitar in front of an amp and making it scream”: Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell on playing Rory Gallagher’s Strat and why a spring reverb is the best overdrive

One half of the Fontaines D.C. six-string machine talks songwriting and influences, and admits that he, too, is a disciple of YouTube’s Kurt Cobain tone guru Aaron Rash

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Fontaines DC review – Dublin rockers strike out into the stratosphere

Rolling out new album Romance and an expansive change of direction, the band range from wistful to brutal in a small-scale gig of epic intensity

The Guardian - UK

Fontaines DC review, Romance: Leaves post-punk in its dust and roars off into broad new horizons

New producer James Ford brings depth and richness to a knockout record that is pleasingly disjointed

The Independent UK

Fontaines DC: Romance review – arenas await, but on the band’s own strange terms

On their most approachable album the Irish rockers add pop melodies, nu-metal touches and lush orchestration – while their troubled view of the world remains

The Guardian - UK

“Conventional ideas about love and romance are blurred, twisted and contorted here.” Fontaines D.C. explore love in all its beautiful, messy, euphoric and melancholic confusion on Romance

Dublin's finest band move away from post-punk and step into the big league on album number four, Romance

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"We decided that if we say and believe we’re the best in the world, then we will be": Fontaines D.C.'s Grian Chatten on the Dublin rockers' early days

Chatten says the band were "ridiculously cocky and arrogant" when they were starting out

Louder

“Korn scared me as a kid!” Fontaines D.C. extend Romance tour, talk up unexpected nu metal influences on new album

Fontaines D.C. love Korn and Deftones, hate Limp Bizkit

Metal Hammer

Fontaines DC: ‘We can generate ideas that sound like they’ve been carved in stone for a thousand years’

Influenced by Korn and moving beyond their native Ireland, the band are ready to be one of the biggest in the world. They explain how panic attacks and parenthood came to bear on a bold new LP

The Guardian - UK

Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly review – the Fontaines DC frontman gets personal

Chatten dials down the rollicking post-punk of the Dublin band with a solo debut of haunted, Leonard Cohen-esque songs

The Guardian - UK

Grian Chatten: Chaos for the Fly album review - short but sweet, bleak but beautiful

The Fontaines DC frontman recorded this solo record in just two weeks

Evening Standard

The 50 best albums of 2022: No 9 – Fontaines DC: Skinty Fia

The Dublin five-piece relinquished rabble-rousing post-punk to create their most introspective and unexpected album yet

The Guardian - UK

Wunderhorse: ‘Music is a sacred space. You’ve got to mean it’

The British rock band’s debut album ‘Cub’ is one of the best of the year. Megan Graye chats with frontman Jacob Slater about his musical heroes, his obsession with surfing, and growing disillusionment with the modern world

The Independent UK

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Nottingham Post

Fontaines D.C. at Nottingham's Rock City review - the Dublin 'saviours of rock and roll'

The atmosphere is rapturous at times

Manchester Evening News

Review and photos: Fontaines D.C. at Victoria Warehouse

The Dublin five-piece are making a strong case to be considered one of the biggest, and certainly one of the best bands around

The Guardian - UK

Leftfield: ‘Having a colonoscopy was like being in a nightclub’

If the UK electronica pioneers’ new album sounds urgent, that’s because Neil Barnes has faced divorce, depression and a cancer scare. ‘I thought: if I don’t get it done, I never will,’ he says

The Independent UK

Glastonbury Sunday reviews: Fontaines DC and McFly

The crowd at the Other Stage for Fontaines DC’s set is testament to their reputation as a brilliant live band, while McFly fall a little short on the crowd-pleasers

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The Guardian - UK

Fontaines DC review – ire, tenderness and very good moshpit

Showcasing tracks from their instant-classic new album Skinty Fia, Dublin’s introspective post-punk five-piece are in their element in a now rare small-scale gig

Evening Standard

Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia review: Maturing into one of the very best

If it wasn’t for Grian Chatten’s doomy vocals, this could be a different band to the one that made Dogrel

The Independent UK

Fontaines DC review, Skinty Fia: Irish band’s third album is a fierce, dirge-like thundercloud of ruination

Production on the record confidently stretches the band’s sound to fill a stadium stage, without sacrificing their compelling friction between surly grit and romantic yearning

The Guardian - UK

Fontaines DC: Skinty Fia review – boldly embracing a state of confusion

On their third album, the Dublin alt-rockers trade in their punky full-pelt approach for measured, compelling insights

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