Big Shot" is the only song on the album written by O'Connell. [3] Lyrically, it depicts "fame, stardom, and the guilt which surrounds them" and his battles with his own ego due to the band's success. [12] [3] s A Hero's Death saw Fontaines D.C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out London's iconic Alexandra Palace.

Recording for Skinty Fia took place in 2021 in London with regular producer Dan Carey. The songs were written during the day, which Chatten deemed a healthy and structured prccess, and recorded at night to create a level of uncertainty. [3] Composition [ edit ] The album garnered the band a win for the Brit Award for International Group at the 2023 Brit Awards and a nomination for Album of the Year at the Choice Music Prize for the year 2022. [7] [8]

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Wet Leg, Fontaines DC land nominations at BRIT Awards 2023". live4ever. 13 January 2023 . Retrieved 16 January 2023. The news also comes with details of a spring/summer Fontaines D.C. tour in support of their new album.

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Album – Classifica settimanale WK 17 (dal 22.04.2022 al 28.04.2022)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved 30 April 2022. a b Berman, Stuart (22 April 2022). "Fontaines D.C.: Skinty Fia Album Review". Pitchfork . Retrieved 22 April 2022. Loftin, Steven (18 April 2022). "Fontaines DC – Skinty Fia | Album Review". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 21 April 2022. Moayeri, Lily (21 April 2022). "Fontaines D.C. can't deliver on the promise of more with Skinty Fia". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 25 April 2022. Murray, Robin (19 April 2022). "Fontaines D.C. – Skinty Fia | Review". Clash . Retrieved 21 April 2022.

Kreps, Daniel (17 February 2022). "Fontaines D.C. Pen Conflicted Ode to Ireland on New Song 'I Love You' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 18 February 2022. a b c d e Ehrlich, Brenna (11 January 2022). "Fontaines D.C. – Fontaines D.C. on the Mutated Irishness of Their New Record 'Skinty Fia' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 22 April 2022. Kreps, Daniel (17 February 2022). "Fontaines D.C. Pen Conflicted Ode to Ireland on New Song 'I Love You' ". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 25 January 2023. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia . Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as “the damnation of the deer”; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatized culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.