Fontaines D.C.’s 2019 debut album Dogrel emerged from nowhere, taking the band from playing pubs in their home city of Dublin to the top ten of the U.K.
album chart and a Mercury Prize nomination. The band’s mixture of post-punk energy and frontman Grian Chatten’s romantic observations on life in the Irish capital won over a legion of new fans.
This success put them onto a non-stop touring circuit that, Chatten says now, left them overworked, uninspired, and worried by other people’s expectations. “It’s not reality to disappear from life for a year and a half and not see anything but backstage hummus,” he says ruefully.
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