Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana "The Longest Line

"The Longest Line

DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope Records

wondrous strings reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield and Bernard Herrmann orchestrations abound

Recorded again with Lance Koehler at his Minimum Wage Studios in Richmond

Andrew and Ben experimented with various in-studio writing processes

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana "The Longest LineDogrel 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