Days forward of kicking off their 2025 North American tour in Seattle, Fontaines D.C. have launched a deluxe version of their acclaimed 2024 album, Romance, that includes three new tracks: “Earlier than You I Simply Neglect,” the previously-released single “It’s Wonderful to Be Younger,” and a mash-up of “Starburster” and David Lynch’s “In Heaven (Girl within the Radiator Tune).”
Now spanning 14 tracks in complete, the deluxe model of Romance reaffirms why Consequence named the band our 2024 Band of the Yr, melding their post-punk grit with dreamy moments of introspection. The brand new observe, “Earlier than You I Simply Neglect,” does this by balancing a swaggering, virtually spoken-word chorus with melodic interludes coloured by string components and chorused guitar arpeggios.
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Talking about “Earlier than You I Simply Neglect,” the band’s Conor Curley stated the tune “began with a imaginative and prescient of this actually blown out sound, one thing that heaved and shifted with new particulars, turning into obvious each time you’d pay attention.” In its remaining type, the tune “morphs and modifications,” Curley continued, “like by no means with the ability to step in the identical river twice.” Concluding, he recommended the “unbelievable string half by Grian [Chatten].”
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As for “Starburster / In Heaven (Girl within the Radiator Tune),” the mash-up serves as each a celebration for the late David Lynch (who handed this previous January) and a as a platform to position the band’s hit — and top-of-the-line songs of 2024 — “Starburster,” in a brand new stripped-back context, with a piano-led association and uncooked, intimate vocals from Chatten. Stream the brand new tracks beneath.
As for his or her 2025 tour, Fontaines D.C. will kick off their North American leg on April seventeenth, with stops booked in Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, and extra cities (get tickets). In Might, they’ll wrap the US tour with a three-night run at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, and can then hop the pond for a European tour starting in June.
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<p><strong><em>Romance (Deluxe Version)</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />01. Romance<br />02. Starburster<br />03. Right here’s The Factor<br />04. Need<br />05. Within the Trendy World<br />06. Bug<br />07. Bike Boy<br />08. Sundowner<br />09. Horseness Is the Whatness<br />10. Dying Kink<br />11. Favorite<br />12. It’s Wonderful To Be Younger<br />13. Earlier than You I Simply Neglect<br />14. Starburster / In Heaven (Girl within the Radiator Tune)</p>
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