Fontaines D.C. online.
Oh no, Fontaines D.C. discovered bright colors and drum machines and novels published after 1922. The music videos get better while the songwriting gets lazier. Or am I using “lazy” as lazy criticism for a band that wants to try new tricks after spending the past few years living in the shadow of their debut and still best album? The half-star is for pulling a Final Fantasy buster sword move in a Trainspotting fantasy. If you understand half of that last sentence, you’re the ideal OPE! reader. Throw in another half-star if this is your first Fontaines D.C. song. I credit the song’s outro for catching my attention, at least in a “this might sound better within the whole album” sort of way. We’ll see.
-Brady Gerber
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