Fontaines D.C. have unveiled I Love You, a new song which tackles Ireland's dark history of atrocities and injustice.
It follows the announcement of the band's third album Skinty Fia, which is to be released on April 22nd on Partisan Records, and a performance of first single Jackie Down The Line on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.
The song is written from the perspective of an Irishman abroad "who is enjoying great personal success and a sense of cultural pride, while simultaneously metabolising deep disappointment, and swirling anger, at the current political climate as well as the country’s grimmest historical atrocities, such as the decades of tragic brutality at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway".
Speaking about the song, front man Grian Chatten says, "It's standing in the centre of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs. That's how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it."
Skinty Fia is an Irish phrase which translates to English as "the damnation of the deer" and the album’s cover art features a deer, plucked from its natural habitat and deposited in the hallway of a home, illuminated by an artificial red glow.
The Grammy nominated band, who are made up of Carlos O’Connell (guitar), Conor Curley (guitar), Conor Deegan III (bass guitar), Grian Chatten (vocals) and Tom Coll (drums), have had a meteoric rise over the past few years and have won acclaim for their two albums, 2020's A Hero’s Death and their 2019 debut Dogrel.
They play two sold-out shows at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin this July.
