Fontaines D.C. release wistful new single ‘Favourite’
19.06.2024 - 09:15
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Fontaines D.C. have released their brand-new wistful single, ‘Favourite’ – watch the nostalgic music video down below.The track is the latest to be shared from the Irish band, as they gear up to share their latest album ‘Romance‘.
So far, it has been previewed by its pummelling lead single ‘Starburster’.Now, Fontaines D.C. have dropped ‘Favourite’, which serves as the closing song on ‘Romance’.
It’s a song which frontman Grian Chatten describes as having “this never-ending sound to it, a continuous cycle from euphoria to sadness, two worlds spinning forever”.The band also shared an accompanying music video, featuring home footage of all five members stitched together. Documenting a recent trip to Madrid, where guitarist Carlos O’Connel was born and grew up, bassist Conor Deegan said of the video: “This video is a reminiscing of the past; of each other’s childhoods we didn’t know.
To see people we know on an intimate level as adults in the tender ages of childhood, we explore where we came from, and who on some level, still are.”He added he wanted the video “to serve as a way of honouring our friendships, and moving from that, the relationships we hold dear. Our mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers.
Those who we still have, and those we have sadly lost.“We haven’t lost that connection to each other, and are not afraid to come of age again, holding on to romance in a sometimes trying world.” Watch the video for ‘Favourite’ below:Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming album ‘Romance’ is due this August. Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Depeche Mode), it will also be the band’s first album released through XL Recordings (Radiohead, King Krule, The xx).Speaking about the title of the
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