Dopamine Chamber is the sound of Fontaines DC becoming megastars. Is bigger always better?
The Irish band’s new album lacks the poetic intimacy and postpunk punch so long a feature of Fontaines at their best
Conor Curley
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Fontaines DC: ‘We just hang out with ourselves and don’t really interact as much with other people’
Conor Deegan and Tom Coll on Dopamine Chamber, which the band’s lead singer, Grian Chatten, says needed to be a ‘catastrophic warning’
Mary McAleese and Fontaines D.C. among beneficiaries of artists’ tax exemption
Scheme allows artists to earn up to € 50,000 a year on creative work free of tax
Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘I’m in an emotional flux’
Sold For Parts documentary about the Dublin band addresses the downsides of even modest success
Dublin band Fontaines DC: The New York Times is raving about them
The band want to show an Ireland ‘that neither accepts cliches nor rejects the past’
New artist of the week: Fontaines D.C.
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