{"id":34217,"date":"2020-05-10T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34217"},"modified":"2020-05-09T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T12:13:50","slug":"fontaines-d-c-announce-second-album-a-heros-death-share-new-single-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34217","title":{"rendered":"Fontaines D.C. announce  second album &#8216;A Hero&#8217;s Death&#8217; + share new single and video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s only been a year since their debut \u2018Dogrel\u2019 earned them a spot as one of the most acclaimed new bands of&nbsp;2019<a href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">,<\/a> but Dublin\u2019s&nbsp;Fontaines D.C. will return with a new LP \u2018A Hero\u2019s Death\u2019&nbsp;on 31st July&nbsp;via Partisan Records. Arriving battered and bruised &#8211; albeit beautiful &#8211; the album is anything but a re-hash of the swaggering energy from their first record. Instead, the music is patient, confident, and complex \u2013 a heady&nbsp;and philosophical take on the modern world and its great uncertainty.<br><br>They have shared the album\u2019s title track, along with the accompanying music video starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire, Peaky Blinders) that takes the song&#8217;s hypnotic intensity and adds a sinister layer of surrealism. Listen + watch to <em>A Hero\u2019s Death<\/em> via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLNt8aMNbvY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singer Grian Chatten said about the song and video: <em>&#8220;The song is&nbsp;a list of rules for the self, they\u2019re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread. It\u2019s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different&nbsp;meanings, that&#8217;s what happens to mantras when you test them over and over. There\u2019s this balance between sincerity and insincerity as the song goes on and you see that in the music video as well. That\u2019s why there\u2019s a lot of shifting from major key to minor key. The idea was influenced by a lot of the advertising I was seeing \u2013 the repetitive nature of these uplifting messages that take on a surreal and scary feel the more you see them.<br><br>The title came from a line in a play by Brendan Behan, and I wrote the lyrics during a time where I felt consumed by the need to write something else to alleviate the fear that I would never be able follow up \u2018Dogrel.\u2019 But more broadly it\u2019s about the battle between happiness and depression, and the trust issues that can form tied to both of those feelings.&#8221;<\/em><br><br>For \u2018A Hero\u2019s Death,\u2019 Fontaines D.C. rejoined producer Dan Carey (Black Midi, Bat For Lashes) in his London studio. Together, they created out a more restrained, spectral balladry that runs through a good portion of&nbsp;\u2018A Hero&#8217;s Death,\u2019 citing influences from Suicide, The Beach Boys, and Leonard Cohen to others including Beach House, Broadcast, and Lee Hazlewood. With album art featuring a statue of the mythological Irish warrior C\u00fachulainn that stands in Dublin as a commemoration of the Easter Rising, there are layers to the phrase \u201cA hero&#8217;s death.\u201d The album serves as a conscious effort to subvert expectations, to challenge themselves and their listeners, and to sacrifice one identity in order to take on another &#8211; one that is fully their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i2.cmail19.com\/ei\/j\/9C\/523\/5D3\/050106\/csfinal\/AlbumArt-9900000000079e3c.jpg\" alt=\"Fontaines D.C. A Hero\u2019s Death cover artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018A Hero\u2019s Death\u2019 track list<\/strong><br>1. I Don\u2019t Belong<br>2. Love Is The Main Thing<br>3. Televised Mind<br>4. A Lucid Dream<br>5. You Said<br>6. Oh Such A Spring<br>7. A Hero\u2019s Death<br>8. Living In America<br>9. I Was Not Born<br>10. Sunny<br>11. No<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fontaines D.C. plan to tour extensively behind \u2018A Hero\u2019s Death,\u2019 more info to be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It\u2019s only been a year since their debut \u2018Dogrel\u2019 earned them a spot as one of the most acclaimed new bands of&nbsp;2019, but Dublin\u2019s&nbsp;Fontaines D.C. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=34217\" title=\"Fontaines D.C. announce  second album &#8216;A Hero&#8217;s Death&#8217; + share new single and video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On Culture Addicts: Fontaines D.C. announce  second album 'A Hero's Death' + share new single and video","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30],"tags":[9228,7996,925],"class_list":["post-34217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-a-heros-death-2","tag-fontaines-d-c","tag-post-punk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/EE013A48-0DFE-428C-8FF9-EFCB33987722-e1589026257725.jpeg?fit=900%2C666","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-8TT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35517,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=35517","url_meta":{"origin":34217,"position":0},"title":"Fontaines D.C. perform \u2018A Hero\u2019s Death\u2019 on \u2018The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u2019","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"February 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Fontaines D.C.\u00a0performed the title track from their acclaimed second album \u2018A Hero\u2019s Death\u2019 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. 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