Fontaines D.C. bring us their third single ‘Skinny Fia’ from upcoming album ‘Skinty Fia’ out 22nd April via Partisan Records. Fontaines D.C. grapple with the dilution and disruption of Irish culture abroad on the new track, frontman Grain says “it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That...
Fontaines D.C. bring us their third single ‘Skinny Fia’ from upcoming album ‘Skinty Fia’ out 22nd April via Partisan Records. Fontaines D.C. grapple with the dilution and disruption of Irish culture abroad on the new track, frontman Grain says “it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That’s a new thing. It’s not unlicensed and it’s not impure. Just because it’s diaspora, it’s still pure. It’s just a completely new beast.”
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