Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten has introduced his debut solo album ‘Chaos For The Fly’ and shared new single ‘Fairlies’.
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‘Chaos For The Fly’ is due out on June 30, 2023 through Partisan Records, with the announcement following the launch of the Irish artist’s debut solo launch ‘The Score’ final week. You can pre-order/ pre-save the album right here.
Speaking of the contemplative new observe in a press assertion, Chatten stated: “I wrote ‘Fairlies’ in intense heat. 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.”
The album is co-produced by Dan Carey, who has helmed all three of Fontaines D.C.’s albums up to now.
Listen to ‘Fairlies’ and watch the video animated by Callum Scott-Dyson beneath.
Reflecting on his resolution to pursue a solo venture, Chatten stated: “I was walking along Stoney Beach at night and it came to me on the waves. I just stood there and looked at them and I heard the whole fucking thing. Every part of it, from the chord progressions to the string arrangements.”
He added: “I simply thought: I wish to do that myself. I do know the place we as a band are going subsequent and that’s not the place I wish to go along with this. I’ve bought a few exaggerated features of my soul that I wished to precise.
“The rest of the band are all creative and songwriters in their own right, too. 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.”
As for the writing course of, Chatten stated “a lot of the album was written with just me and a guitar and I really like the idea of it being boiled down to those elements”.
“That feeling of having the song in the palm of your hand, that control of having it with just you and a guitar. There’s an intensity as a result of that,” he continued.
Find the album art work and tracklisting beneath.
‘Chaos For The Fly’
1. ‘The Score’
2. ‘Last Time Every Time Forever’
3. ‘Fairlies’
4. ‘Bob’s Casino’
5. ‘All Of The People’
6. ‘East Coast Bed’
7. ‘Salt Throwers Off A Truck’
8. ‘I Am So Far’
9. ‘Season For Pain’
Speaking about ‘The Score’ in an announcement final week, Chatten defined: “‘The Score’ is a heavyweight bated breath of lust. I wrote it in Madrid between an electric fan and a dying plant and I intend to keep it there. It was inspired by sugar and sunset.”
This summer time, Fontaines D.C. will head out on the highway to assist Arctic Monkeys on their 2023 North American tour.
Speaking to NME on the BRIT Awards 2023 (the place Fontaines gained the Best International Group statue), guitarist Carlos O’Connell stated that the band would “go back into the mindset of writing” after the Arctic Monkeys gigs.