In a couple of weeks, I'll be chronicling my favorite albums of 2025. I've been listening to a lot of them this year, and I have focused a lot on recent albums of late.
One that won't make the list is the latest album by the Fontaines D.C., Romance. That's not because the album isn't great - it is - but because it was released in 2024. I *almost* posted about this song before #AmericanAutumn, but decided against.
It's a shame. The Grammy-nominated song was also on a lot of year-end lists as single of the year - which makes sense. The album itself was also on a lot of those lists, and had we done such a list last year, we would have been one of those lists. It is retroactively one of my favorite albums of 2024.
I waited just as long as I could to post this.
By the way, the D.C. stands for Dublin City. The band is from near Dublin, Ireland, and added it as a disambiguation from a Los Angeles band - who seem to have not done much of anything for about five years. Fontaines D.C. are still making music, still being politically active (their music is not available in Israel as of this writing), and I look forward to what they do next.
The song itself starts quiet.... with organ, then piano, then drums.... then it explodes!
Look, the band is solid and every performance sounds just like the recording.
The performance from the Glastonbury festival in 2024 is perhaps the greatest crown engagement thus far.
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