Fontaines

Massive Attack, Fontaines D.C., and Young Fathers will release a charity EP in the spring titled Ceasefire: In Benefit of Doctors Without Borders to raise money for the titular organization’s relief efforts in Gaza. The EP will be available digitally, as well as on a 12-inch vinyl with artwork by Massive Attack’s 3D; the art will also be available as a large-scale print signed by the artist. The EP will come out on March 1 and is available for preorder now. The artists will donate all money they make from the release to…

Dan Carey’s studio is notoriously hectic at the best of times, but today takes the biscuit. The air is thick with hangovers, the tabletops strewn with empty champagne bottles and Carey’s head has been freshly shaved bald. His new musical project Miss Tiny, a duo with Warmduscher’s Benjamin Romans-Hopcraft, played at Pratts & Payne in Streatham last night, before stumbling the short walk back to the studio with a few select friends in the early hours.As we retrace those steps back to the venue, Carey rightly strides…

“What’s normal for the spider,” the Addams family’s Morticia once noted, “is chaos for the fly.” Fontaines DC’s frontman Grian Chatten, meanwhile, has described his debut solo album as “a horror movie with a hyperreal colour palette”. Which is to say: the rollicking post-punk of the Dublin band has been dialled down on this suite of haunted, intimate songs, where the prevailing vibe is a rapidly sinking feeling. Despite calling on Fontaines drummer Tom Coll and go-to producer Dan Carey, Chatten felt his bleak storytelling…

Fontaines DC have been on quite the journey over the course of their three albums to date. Their 2019 instant classic Dogrel was – unsurprisingly, from a band named after Dublin city – largely set in the Irish capital. In a refreshingly unfettered accent, singer Grian Chatten delivered punky, rumbustious songs brimming with references to specific pubs and characters, from the ranting preacher on Chequeless Reckless to the anglophobic cabby of Boys in the Better Land. A year later, they took a left turn with A Hero’s…