Words: Ellie Ward
"This song is about the echo chamber, and how personality gets stripped away by surrounding approval," is how Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten describes the newly unveiled
'Televised Mind'.
Premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music earlier today (June 30), the hypnotically gloomy, bass-heavy number of droning guitars, is lifted from the band's incoming second album 'A Hero’s Death', out on July 31 through Partisan Records.
"People’s opinions get reinforced by constant agreement, and we’re robbed of our ability to feel wrong," Chatten continues."We’re never really given the education of our own fallibility. People feign these great beliefs in order to appear trendy, as opposed to independently arriving at their own thoughts.
"We were listening to a lot of The Prodigy and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, specifically their song 'Open Heart Surgery'. I was interested in extrapolating those types of chord progressions and capturing this droning, hypnotic feel. That last line repeated over and over ['What ya call it'] is a buffer expression that people used here in Dublin. It’s sort of like 'umm' or 'well…' – it’s what people say when they’re distracted."
Listen to 'Televised Mind' via the Hugh Mulhern-directed video below.
I am an ardent fan of Linkin Park, and the demise of Chester Bennington has been a sad phase to my music interests. He was such a brilliant artist who could Bring Music to Life. I guess Fontaines D.C. is a post-punk band that I would like to keep following. Maybe I might become a fan too!
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