Dopamine Chamber is the sound of Fontaines DC becoming megastars. Is bigger always better?
The Irish band’s new album lacks the poetic intimacy and postpunk punch so long a feature of Fontaines at their best
Tom Coll
Musician
Fontaines DC: ‘We just hang out with ourselves and don’t really interact as much with other people’
Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’
How Cathal Coughlan and The Fatima Mansions made one of Ireland’s greatest rock songs
Filled with regret after the demise of his forerunner band Microdisney, the Cork songwriter brought all his wrath to bear on Blues for Ceaușescu, a prescient warning about western complacency
When Fontaines DC met Bohemian FC: ‘Homelessness can be solved’
A football club and rock band join forces: ‘Homelessness can’t be something we accept’
Dublin band Fontaines DC: The New York Times is raving about them
The band want to show an Ireland ‘that neither accepts cliches nor rejects the past’
New artist of the week: Fontaines D.C.
Rock’n’roll garage music with a Dublin twist. Plus: Francis & the Lights; The Streets
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