Fontaines D.C.’s vocalist Grian Chatten made his debut solo appearance on “Later…With Jools Holland” last week (June 17th), Chatten released his first solo single ‘The Score’ in April and took to Jools Holland on the Saturday night to perform follow-up track ‘Fairlies’.
“I wrote ‘Fairlies’ in intense heat,” Chatten explained at the time. “Partly in Jerez, Spain, partly in LA a couple of days before a Fontaines D.C. tour kicked off. It was a quick write, and I believe I celebrated each line with a beer.”
Chatten is set to release his debut solo album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ on June 30th. The album is co-produced by Dan Carey, who has helmed all three of Fontaines D.C.’s albums to date. “Chaos For The Fly” is the debut solo album from Grian Chatten, vocalist of Dublin’s critically-acclaimed band Fontaines D.C.
Rare moments of respite from a relentless touring schedule afforded Chatten the opportunity to start work on something for himself, occupying a completely different headspace from his hugely successful work within Fontaines D.C. the album is arguably the most poetic we’ve heard from Chatten. Each song here has a sweep of colour and textures that breathe life into his lucid tales.
It’s been a tremendous run for Fontaines D.C., debuting at number one in both the UK and Ireland with their third album, the critically acclaimed and Ivor Novello nominated “Skinty Fia”, and taking home the BRIT award for International Group of the Year. It followed 2020’s “A Hero’s Death”, which was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammys, and their debut, 2019’s “Dogrel”, which was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.
“The rest of the band are all creative and songwriters in their own right too,” Chatten said. “I didn’t want to go to them and be like, ‘No, every single thing has to be like this.’ I didn’t want to compromise with these songs in that way.”
Over its nine tracks, “Chaos For The Fly” is a record that takes in all of life’s rich emotions, transporting the listener to a place you not only want to visit, but will find yourself returning to again and again.
“The Score” taken from the new album, Chaos For The Fly, out 30 June on Partisan Records
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