Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana The album is full of

The album is full of songs wiser and more nuanced than John should have been able to produce according to natural law

Throughout ‘Self Control

" (book/album) this album is finally given proper treatment on physical format

outdistancing its nearest opponent (Neil Young's Freedom) by 21 votes and 260 points

Now after that long wait

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana The album is full ofDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that