Credit: Pooneh Ghana
Words: Sam Geary
As they work up to their second album, 'A Hero’s Death', Fontaines D.C. drop a new taster single from the record.
'I Don’t Belong', the near five-minute brooding opening track, is debuted via a video directed by bassist Connor Deegan III remotely from his Co.Mayo base, while actually filmed in Skerries, on the east coast of Ireland.
"This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you," expounds frontman Grian Chatten. "We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-'Big', which is why we put it as the first song on the new album. This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it's also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness.
"One verse is about a soldier who has his bravery commended by his country, but throws his medal down and refuses to accept the commendation. He sees it as a hijacking and commodification of his principles. The other verse is about someone causing a ruckus in a bar, refusing to be enticed by any sort of friendliness and kindness, wanting to remain in the wrong corner. I had a few cans before I recorded the vocals, I wanted it to sound like I was playing the role of embittered barfly and feel like the soundtrack of someone swaying themselves home after a cold night out - full of principles but surrounded by nobody."
'A Hero's Death' is released on July 31 via Partisan Records.
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