The song is the second single from the band's upcoming LP, Romance
Fontaines DC have shared a new single, “Favourite,” along with a directed music video for the track. The glowing love song is the second listen from the group's upcoming LP, Romanceout August 23 via XL Recordings.
The music video chronicles a recent trip to Madrid, a city the band has some personal connections with. Guitarist Carlos O'Connell was born and raised there, and the band used it as a base for their first tour. Footage from the trip is interspersed with childhood clips of the five band members.
Fontaines DC previously debuted “Favourite” live at a show in Brooklyn Warsaw in April. Vocalist Grian Chatten described the track in a statement as having “that never-ending sound, a constant cycle from euphoria to sadness, two worlds spinning forever”.
The team announced Romance, their fourth album, with the single “Starburster” in April. The funky, disco-rock track chronicles a panic attack Chatten suffered in a London tube station.
The quintet spent a month writing Romance and nearly another month in a North London studio doing pre-production. The band recorded it with producer James Ford in a Paris tower block for another month. Bassist Conor Deegan III said they decided on the title because of their penchant for romance.
“We've always had this sense of idealism and romance,” he said in a statement. “Each album moves further away from seeing it through the lens of Ireland, as directly as Dogrel. The second album [A Hero’s Death] concerns that detachment, and the third [Skinty Fia] it is for Ireland displaced in the Diaspora. Now we look where and what else there is to be romantic.”
“We're saying things on this record that we've wanted to say for a long time,” Chatten added. “It never feels like it's over, but it's nice to feel lighter.”
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