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Fontaines D.C. have called out for more mental health support for artists in the music industry.The Irish band’s frontman Grian Chatten has opened up about their gruelling tour schedule during gigs for their 2019 debut album Dogrel and how difficult mentally it was to manage.“It’s dangerous, you know, even without the drugs,” he told Music Week.

Fontaines D.C. have opened up on how The Beach Boys proved to be an unexpected influence on their latest record.The Dublin band are set to release ‘A Hero’s Death’ on July 31, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Dogrel’.Despite being worlds apart in their sound, frontman Grian Chatten says that the legendary US group’s use of a capella proved to be an unlikely influence.“It’s inspired by the stillness of the sea,” Grian told NME in this week’s Big Read.

Fontaines D.C.’s 2019 debut album Dogrel emerged from nowhere, taking the band from playing pubs in their home city of Dublin to the top ten of the U.K. album chart and a Mercury Prize nomination.

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