Fontaines Dc

The very first words we hear on the first song on the first album from Fontaines D.C.

are “Dublin in the rain is mine”—and with that line, from the underdog fight song “Big,” the group instantly seized the title of Ireland’s pre-eminent dark-skied post-punk poets.

Their 2019 Mercury Prize-nominated debut, Dogrel, arrived in a crowded field of cantankerous indie bands from the British and Emerald Isles wielding jagged guitar riffs, bass-battered rhythms, and shouty sing-speak.