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FONTAINES D.C. ROY'S TUNE

Following a tirade of high-octane indie bangers (see List Picks 'Big' & 'Too Real'), Dublin's Fontaines D.C. reveal their softer side on the tender third single from their highly-anticipated debut album Dogrel. Described by guitarist Conor Curley, 'Roy's Tune' is "sung to Ireland - from a mindset of frustration, depression, and a loss of innocence." Reflecting on some tough times, the track exposes the darker side of Dublin as Curley elaborates, "I used to work in the service industry, at a small burrito place in Dublin, and I’d walk home at night because I couldn’t afford public transportation. Grian and I didn’t have any money, so we were sharing a double-size bed in the same converted office block. One night on my way home I was walking by The George, which is the biggest gay nightclub in Dublin, and a guy was getting kicked out by the bouncers. He kept yelling at them, “I’m gonna kill you stone dead!,” and that turn of phrase stuck out to me." Listen here now. -Holly Mullineaux 

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