Barely a year after the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album Dogrel, which earned a Mercury Prize nomination and Album of the Year 2019 at both BBC 6Music and Rough Trade record store, Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. have returned with an intensely confident, patient, and complex follow up album. A Heros Death’ was released on 31st July 2020 via Partisan Records – it arrives battered and bruised, albeit beautiful – a heady and philosophical take on the modern world, and its great uncertainty. The album landed at #2 in both the UK and Irish album charts with over 35,000 global Week 1 sales. It received rave reviews across the board – “Exceptional” – The Guardian ????? “A resounding victory” – Q ????? “One of the best new bands of our time” – The Times ???? “Fontaines D.C. could be the best rock band in a generation” – The Telegraph MOJO ???? NME ???? The 7” features two tracks from the album – “A Hero’s Death” and “I Don’t Belong.
