Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death

A Hero’s Death is the second studio album by Irish-post punk band Fontaines D.C., released in July 2020 via Partisan Records.

Barely a year after the release of their hugely acclaimed debut album Dogrel (2019), cult post punk rock outfit Fontaines D.C. have returned with an intensely confident, patient, and complex follow up album, A Hero’s Death.

Arriving battered and bruised (albeit beautiful) the album is anything but a re-hash of the swaggering energy from their first record. Instead, the music is patient, confident, and complex; a heady and philosophical take on the modern world and its great uncertainty.

The album received critical acclaim upon its release, signifying a partial departure from their bubbling and anxiety-inducing post-punk sound found on their first record to the incorporation of more dream-like and psychedelic aspects having taken inspiration from The Beach Boys, to name but one of many influences, during the writing of the record.

This album is on black vinyl with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in the UK via Partisan Records.