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This is actually quite good.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Yeah, its fine. The accent still grates a bit. But he's stuck with it now. Make's it a bit more unique I suppose.

 

[Deadmanposting]

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This is actually quite good.

Came here to say this

Listened to it while driving yesterday and let it play about 3 times

He's found the right sound for himself

 

[ernesto]

Yeah, its fine. The accent still grates a bit. But he's stuck with it now. Make's it a bit more unique I suppose.

More unique?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I’m in the positive camp. There’s a bit of Echo and the Bunnymen in there but it’s also doing it’s own thing. Lyrics are bad though

 

[Deadmanposting]

GRIAN CHATTEN ANNOUNCES
DEBUT SOLO ALBUM DETAILS


CHAOS FOR THE FLY

RELEASED 30 JUNE 2023
THROUGH PARTISAN RECORDS

NEW SINGLE

'FAIRLIES'
STREAMING NOW WITH ANIMATED VIDEO
HERE


Grian Chatten is pleased to share details of his debut solo album for release this Summer. Chaos For The Fly is released on 30th June via Partisan Records. The Fontaines D.C. vocalist worked with producer Dan Carey on the record. To coincide with its announcement, a new track, 'Fairlies', is streaming now alongside a video animated by Callum Scott-Dyson.

Grian on 'Fairlies': “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.”

'Fairlies' follows the release of the album opener 'The Score' last week.


About Chaos For The Fly…

Thirty miles north of Dublin along a windswept promenade you’ll find a tired casino, the sort of place anyone familiar with the rusted seaside glamour of forgotten coastal towns will recognise. A now shuttered escape where the crack of pool balls and chink of glasses in the lounge bar reverberated within the ever-present whirr and jangle of slot machines. Unremarkable to some, perhaps, but it was where Chaos For The Fly was born.

“I was walking along Stoney Beach at night and it came to me on the waves,” recalls Chatten. “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.”

The resulting songs could have been taken, shaped and reimagined with his bandmates in Fontaines D.C., but Chatten decided to treat these differently.

“I just thought: I want to do this myself. I know where we as a band are going next and that’s not where I want to go with this. I’ve got a couple of exaggerated aspects of my soul that I wanted to express,” he says.

“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.”

Co-produced by Fontaines’ longstanding producer Dan Carey, the album is the most poetic we’ve heard yet from Chatten. Songs such as the fingerpicking kiss-off of opener 'The Score' or 'Fairlies’ wounded isolation present a heavily distilled vision that is heady in its strength and at times comes with a dark undertow.

“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,” he says. “There’s an intensity as a result of that.”

Over its nine tracks, Chaos For The Fly takes in all of life’s emotions and stories. Yes, some are painful, but in giving shape and form to them and making those voices come alive, Chatten has created something with its own unique beauty. A place you not only want to visit, but will find yourself returning to again and again.


It's been a hectic but rewarding 12 months for Fontaines D.C., debuting at number one in both the UK and Ireland with their third album, the critically acclaimed, Ivor Novello nominated Skinty Fia, and taking home the BRIT award for International Group of the Year. It followed 2020’s A Hero’s Death, which was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammys and their debut, 2019’s Dogrel, which was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.

This album is still good

Never would have guessed

 

[ernesto]

This album is still good

Never would have guessed

'Debuting at number 1 with their third album'


... how does that work then?

 

[Unicron]

'Debuting at number 1 with their third album'


... how does that work then?

Week 1 sales for the album saw them topping the chart?

 

[Deadmanposting]

'Debuting at number 1 with their third album'


... how does that work then?

Third album's debut on the charts

"Straight to No.1 with a bullet " as the old timey DJs used to say

 

[rettucs]

That Fairlies song just popped up in an indie bedwetter playlist on Tidal

and I liked it

fuck

 

[Deadmanposting]

That Fairlies song just popped up in an indie bedwetter playlist on Tidal

and I liked it

fuck

No fair


(they can follow me, I can live alone, I can live alone...)





Still listening to this every week at least.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

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This is actually quite good.

I don't dislike it but it really reminds me of one of the better Oasis b-sides from their heyday.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Still enjoying this. Feels like he's found the right sound for his voice and songwriting

 

[rettucs]

I might have to suck this one up and admit its good. Though I've still only heard one song.

However I will NEVER admit that I like CMAT because I fucking don't

 

[Deadmanposting]

@rettucs
Where will you take me for dinner and sex?

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

@rettucs
Where will you take me for dinner and sex?

Supermacs on O’Connell St for dinner. Maybe for sex.

 

[the_jen]

There's a supermacs billboard I see twice a day and the woman is wearing a food service uniform, including hat, but has her hair hanging lankly down in front of her face. It just looks dirty. I don't want her handling my food and I honestly question whether you two should be having sex there now.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

There's a supermacs billboard I see twice a day and the woman is wearing a food service uniform, including hat, but has her hair hanging lankly down in front of her face. It just looks dirty. I don't want her handling my food and I honestly question whether you two should be having sex there now.

They give out unlimited ketchup in a pump, cheaper than buying lube.

 

[rettucs]

Supermacs on O’Connell St for dinner. Maybe for sex.

only if he's paying

 

[rettucs]

There's a supermacs billboard I see twice a day and the woman is wearing a food service uniform, including hat, but has her hair hanging lankly down in front of her face. It just looks dirty. I don't want her handling my food and I honestly question whether you two should be having sex there now.

we can do it when that woman isn't working