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- Summary: The fourth full-length studio release from Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C. was produced and mixed by James ford.
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- Record Label: XL Recordings
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 21, 2024That Fontaines DC are accomplished, assured songwriters and musicians is well-established by now, but it’s such a joy to hear they are also (whisper it) quite fun.
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Aug 19, 2024An album of impeccably considered concepts championed by songwriting that refuses to let the Dublin outfit down.
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Aug 21, 2024Though not every experiment lands—the ethereal “Sundowner” comes across like Slowdive-lite—Romance is thrilling in its willingness to subvert what you thought you knew about Fontaines D.C.
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Aug 21, 2024This is no elementary Valentine's card; it's a treacherous and wonderfully unreliable encyclopedia of romance.
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Aug 29, 2024It’s great, urgent music. Sad and enticing.
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Aug 22, 2024When all is said and done, they remain fantastic songwriters, able to convey a variety of emotions without relying on the trappings of punk. The corners may have been sanded off, but it has only revealed new and interesting textures underneath.
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Aug 27, 2024Romance has its problems. In a vacuum it sometimes sounds cloying, as overtly cinematic as a Marvel trailer, and indistinct from its forebears. But it also does something I've never experienced before: making Love an impetus is the kind of staging trick that allows realism and idolatry to exist in the same room.