The Big Listen: Fontaines DC – A Hero`s Death
(WorldNews Music)

“I do hope people are shocked,” says Fontaines DC frontman Grian Chatten of A Hero’s Death, the Dublin band’s second album in as many years. “This is us as people. If people can’t accept it or don’t like it, their band is gone.” It’s a bold statement on behalf of five men whose debut album, Dogrel, was one of the most thrilling, eloquent and identifiable rock ‘n’ roll records in recent years. It earned Fontaines a Mercury Prize nomination and gatecrashed the Top 10 of the UK Album Chart. To hell with all that, though. This is a new beginning, heralded by a playfully prescient album title. By the end of last year, the success of Dogrel had become a...