Photo by Polocho.
In January, Fontaines D.C. announced their third studio album, Skinty Fia, with its morose lead single, "Jackie Down the Line." The Dublin post-punk five-piece dropped a moody follow-up, "I Love You," last month, and today, they've released the record's title track. The full project is due out April 22 via Partisan Records.
Where gloom and angst characterize the forthcoming record's first two releases, the new song is sardonic in an angrier, more direct way. Over a driving new-wave instrumental, frontman Grian Chatten spits venom in a sinister monotone. "Are you lying through your teeth or are they paying through your nose / A set of manners and a smile is all they want you for," he sings in the first verse, setting the tone for a verbal shellacking that continues for the next three-and-a-half minutes.
The video, directed by Hugh Mulhern, is a dark dream sequence that pans over a barely moonlit landscape before honing in on Chatten as he walks unnoticed through an apocalyptic house party. Watch it below.
