Dublin band, Fontaines D.C., have shared their new euphoric single ‘Favourite’. The track is the latest single to be released from their next album ‘Romance’ after the more punchy tune ‘Starbuster’ was released by the band in April along with the announcement of the new album. ‘Favourite’ will be the closing track of the upcoming record. The new single has been released with a very nostalgic music video.
Favourite.
Out now. https://t.co/mDPoe2gyyS pic.twitter.com/DlExLjRAGT
— Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesdublin) June 18, 2024
The accompanying music video for ‘Favourite’ was directed by the band themselves and it documents a trip to Madrid. Madrid is a city quite personal to Fontaines D.C. as it is the birthplace of guitarist Carlos O’Connell as well as it being the city which the band used as a base for their first tour. The music video is very nostalgic as it has home childhood footage of all five members of the band all put together. Watch the video below.
Talking about the video bassist Conor Deegan has said that explores what shaped each band members: “This video is a reminiscing of the past; of each other’s childhoods we didn’t know. To see people we know on an intimate level as adults in the tender ages of childhood, we explore where we came from, and who on some level, still are.”
He added that he wanted to pay tribute to those that the band love: “I would like this video to serve as a way of honouring our friendships, and moving from that, the relationships we hold dear. Our mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers. Those who we still have, and those we have sadly lost. We haven’t lost that connection to each other, and are not afraid to come of age again, holding on to romance in a sometimes trying world.”
The Irish Band’s upcoming album is set to be released on the 23rd of August via XL Recordings, which will be their first release on this record label and their first with producer James Ford. They will be hoping to build on the success on the band’s last album ‘Skinty Fia’ which reached number 1 in the UK and Irish album charts and saw them receive various accolades including “International Group of the Year” at last year’s BRIT Awards.
The forthcoming album is set to be Fontaines D.C’s most ambitious record formed by ideas that have been brewing from the five members since their last release. The first single, ‘Starbuster’, was written by singer, Grian Chatten, after experiencing a panic attack in London’s St. Pancras train station and sees Chatten almost rapping in most of the song. The ideas for the new album came to fruition when the band was touring the US and Mexico with the Arctic Monkeys as they shared music with each other that they had been listening to, very different from the usual sounds we normally expect from the Dublin five piece.
The band will be playing a huge UK and Ireland headline tour later this year in support of Romance and you can get your tickets here.
The tracklist for the album is:
1. Romance
2. Starburster
3. Here’s The Thing
4. Desire
5. In The Modern World
6. Bug
7. Motorcycle Boy
8. Sundowner
9. Horseness is the Whatness
10. Death Kink
11. Favourite
