Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘A Hero’s Death’ (Partisan Records).
This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination, and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are pat...
Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards for ‘A Hero’s Death’ (Partisan Records).
This is the band’s first-ever Grammy nomination, and comes on the heels of a #2 debut on the UK charts (behind only Taylor Swift), and some of the best reviews of any album released this year. Far from a re-hash of their swaggering 2019 debut (‘Dogrel’), ‘A Hero’s Death’ arrived battered and bruised – albeit beautiful, with songs that are patient, confident, and heady takes on the modern world and its great uncertainty. ‘A Hero’s Death’ was produced by Dan Carey (Black Midi, Bat For Lashes). Listen to the seething, surreal title track, accompanied by a music video starring Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones, The Wire).
Last week Fontaines D.C. performed stripped-down versions of ‘A Hero’s Death’ highlights “I Don’t Belong” and “Oh Such A Spring” in Paris for La Blogothèque.
Praise for ‘A Hero’s Death’:
“Heady, funny, and fearless, the Dublin band’s second album is a maudlin and manic triumph, a horror movie shot as comedy, equal parts future-shocked and handcuffed to history.” – Pitchfork (8.1)
“If Dogrel showed that they can be big, then A Hero’s Death shows that they can be whatever the hell they want. Fontaines D.C. are dead; long live Fontaines D.C” – Stereogum ‘Album of the Week’
“Exceptional” – The Guardian ‘Album of The Week’
“A resounding victory” – Q
“The most electric rock’n’roll band of the 2020s” – MOJO
“powerful, brave and endlessly rewarding” – The Line of Best Fit
DOMINO AT THE GRAMMYS 2021
4 of our writers are also nominated in 6 categories
Best Rock Song – Big Thief – Not
Best Rock Performance – Big Thief – Not
Best Rock Album Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death
Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance – Devonté Hynes and Third Coast Percussion – Hynes: Fields
Best Engineered Album – Classical – Kyle Pyke, engineer ; Jesse Lewis & Kyle Pyke, mastering engineers (Devonté Hynes and Third Coast Percussion) – Hynes: Fields
Best Global Music Album – Bebel Gilberto – Agora *co-written with our writer Thomas Bartlett.