We are inundated with a new wave of punk and post-punk bands from Great Britain. You imagine how musicians find each other in the music of , , and other historical bands. At Fontaines DC it was different. The five members of this young Irish band found each other in the poetry of beatniks like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and Irish literature. For that reason they sound more profound and
… romantic on their debut than colleagues like and . Singer Grian Chatten does not scream, but keeps his singing intelligible. Also the heavy guitars are always chatting in powerful verbal songs like Liberty Belle and Big. Irish influences are evident in the lived Dublin City Sky. It is these elements that give Fontaines DC its own face within the current (post) punk revival. (MR)more
