UPC: 720841216612
Label: PARTISAN RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: August 9, 2019
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Dogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D.C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It’s a through-line that can be discovered in all the best of Irish art, whichever the medium, and the band’s intent is drolly embodied in the album’s knowing title. To give it its dictionary definition (or close enough for now): crude verse of little artistic worth. The ribald rhymes of the docks, the factories and the early houses. The authentic poetry of the people, which any smart Irish poet knows it is foolish to think oneself above. For in it all is an ineffable beauty, something these young men understand very well.

TRACK LIST:
A1 BigA2 Sha Sha ShaA3 Too RealA4 Television ScreensA5 Hurricane LaughterA6 Roy’s TuneB1 The LottsB2 Chequeless RecklessB3 Liberty BelleB4 Boys In The Better LandB5 Dublin City Sky