“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says the band's Grian Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”
PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE DOPAMINE CHAMBER HERE
Formats include LP, deluxe LP, CD, cassette and digital.
PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE DOPAMINE CHAMBER HERE
Formats include LP, deluxe LP, CD, cassette and digital.
Additionally, the band will do two U.S. gigs next month at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn (September 21) and Hollywood Forever Cemetery (September 25). Fans can get pre-sale tickets here: https://laylo.com/fontainesdc/
Of the last album Romance, Chatten says it “was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling.” He spent time in Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more.” He resisted any pull towards easy optimism: “I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning.”
“Our albums have always questioned a sense of place,” says bassist Conor Deegan. “First Dublin, then being away from Dublin, and then trying to find the romance elsewhere. On this record, the question became: where do you escape to?”
Adds guitarist Conor Curley, “I was trying to find stuff that pointed into the future.” The new album was made with James Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.
“There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” says Chatten.
The album track listing is TBA.
Live shows:
The album track listing is TBA.
Live shows:
August 28th - Reading Festival, UK
August 29th - Leeds Festival, UK
August 30th - Electric Picnic, Ireland
September 18th - Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 20th - Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA
** September 21st - Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, USA (NEW DATE) **
** September 25th - Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (NEW DATE) **
September 27th - Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA
August 30th - Electric Picnic, Ireland
September 18th - Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 20th - Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA
** September 21st - Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, USA (NEW DATE) **
** September 25th - Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (NEW DATE) **
September 27th - Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA
No comments:
Post a Comment