Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel (New Vinyl LP)

Dogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D.C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through-line that can be discovered in all the best of Irish art, whichever the medium, and the band's intent is drolly embodied in the album's knowing title. To give it its dictionary definition (or close enough for now): crude verse of little artistic worth. The ribald rhymes of the docks, the factories and the early houses. The authentic poetry of the people, which any smart Irish poet knows it is foolish to think oneself above. For in it all is an ineffable beauty, something these young men understand very well.

Tracklist

A1        Big
A2        Sha Sha Sha
A3        Too Real
A4        Television Screens
A5        Hurricane Laughter
A6        Roy's Tune
B1        The Lotts
B2        Chequeless Reckless
B3        Liberty Belle
B4        Boys In The Better Land
B5        Dublin City Sky