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I just discovered a 'new' band for the first time in ages.

Fontaines D.C.

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I've long been of the opinion that indie rock is dead. Even when I've asked younger people to recommend bands, they don't come up with much. The 2000's was really the last decade that produced a lot of quality indie music and even then it was in decline. IMO, Chappell Roan is the most relevant new artist in the last few years and she's a pop star.

Fontaines D.C. is not that new. They are already on their fourth album but they recently came to my attention with this crazy song. The singer Grian Chatten says that it's about having a panic attack but it also seems to be about the chaos and confusion of modern life in general.

They have a lot of other great songs too. It's usually more low-key than Starburster. They are an Irish band who formed in Dublin City (D.C.) over their shared love of poetry and you can kind of hear it in the lyrics. Their music is a mixture of poetry, post-punk guitar music and hip-hop. It's genuinely like nothing I've heard before. The lyrics are one of this band's strengths. You won't always understand ithem but then you are not meant to and that is a good thing.
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Interesting.

Not bad but not really my thing.


And whenever I hear the term Indie rock I cringe slightly just because I am of the generation that that meant "pretentious Sonic Youth fan" over here.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yeah, I tend to use it in the widest sense. Oasis (at a stretch) can be called indie.

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You might like this.

The subject of the song is Ireland and it's about a love/hate relationship with the country. The hate part gets very political.
@Burnley123 Interesting. I like it. I suppose context is often a huge part of music of that nature.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow It is.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are even mentioned directly. They are the two biggest political parties in Ireland. Both are neoliberal and pretty corrupt. The band were young children during the 2007/08 financial crisis and that hit Ireland hard. Not quite as much as Greece but it was pretty bad, A lot of young people in Ireland now support Sinn Fein.

They are not ultra-political like RATM but they are left-wing guys and very pro-Palestine.
@Burnley123 That makes sense. And I remember in the 2000s the government at the time made Ireland infamous by turning it into basically a country based on tax evasion. This was when Apple famously "relocated" to Ireland to evade taxes.

And I cannot remember the specifics exactly being nearly 20 years ago but I remember there was some sort of economic meeting along the lines of Davos, They picked some small picturesque Irish village for the meeting and wanted to use it to showcase the "Irish economic miracle" than the economy crashed and they resorted to getting artists to paint fake people over the boarded up windows in the village to try and save face.

So it is no surprise growing up in that era would have an impact.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M