Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Throughout ‘Self Control

Throughout ‘Self Control

Haden and Jaffee had appeared as guest musicians on the band's previous studio album

Now after that long wait

Andrew and Ben experimented with various in-studio writing processes

"The Longest Line

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Throughout ‘Self ControlDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that