Fontaines D.C. Announce New Album Skinty Fia, Share First Single “Jackie Down the Line”
Plus their first North American tour since 2019
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Irish quintet Fontaines D.C.—Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan III (bass guitar), Grian Chatten (vocals) and Tom Coll (drums)—have announced the third album in what a press release terms their “triumvirate.” The follow-up to their 2019 debut Dogrel and 2020’s Grammy-nominated A Hero’s Death, Skinty Fia is out April 22 on Partisan Records. The band’s announcement is accompanied by the video for grungy lead single “Jackie Down the Line,” as well as their first North American tour dates since the pre-pandemic days of 2019.
Skinty Fia takes its title from an Irish phrase meaning “the damnation of the deer”—”The Irish giant deer is an extinct species and the band’s thoughts on Irish identity are central to Skinty Fia,” their announcement notes, with the band’s new set “addressing their Irishness from afar as they recreate new lives for themselves elsewhere.” Fontaines D.C. (which stands for “Dublin City,” if you didn’t know) worked with indie-rock super-producer Dan Carey for a third time on their latest outing.
Fontaines D.C. are touring the E.U. this March and April, with their newly announced North American run kicking off on April 21 at Washington, D.C.’s 9:30 Club, and running across the continent until a May 18 show at The Regent Theater in Los Angeles. They also have a handful of mid-year festival sets planned. In the meantime, the band will live-debut “Jackie Down the Line” on tomorrow night’s (Jan. 12) episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Watch the “Jackie Down the Line” video (dir. Hugh Mulhern) below, and see the details of Skinty Fia and Fontaines D.C.’s tour dates further down.
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