Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Now after that long wait

Now after that long wait

"The Longest Line

wondrous strings reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield and Bernard Herrmann orchestrations abound

The album is full of songs wiser and more nuanced than John should have been able to produce according to natural law

Recorded again with Lance Koehler at his Minimum Wage Studios in Richmond

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Now after that long waitDogrel 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