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Fontaines D.C. have shared a second single from their forthcoming sophomore album. 'I Don't Belong' follows May's surprise return cut and title track 'A Hero's Death'. It's to be the opening track from the new full-length record, which is coming on 31 July.

Cyclical and spongy, the riff on 'I Don't Belong' tails itself in a depressed circle that shows a compelling side to the Irish band. Grunge in its despondency and quietly shoegaze in its layered instrumental chorus, Fontaines D.C. have written a burning, sombre and truly smart song that keeps them at the top of post-punks blooming tree.

The indignant exhaustion in frontman Grian Chatten's vocals are mirrored in the accompanying video for the new track. The vocalist stands dejected on the east coast of Ireland, then in the water at Skerries. It was directed remotely by band bassist Connor Deegan III.

On the song's meaning, Chatten explains: "This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you. We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-"Big"...This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it's also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness."

A Hero's Death was produced by UK Producer of the Year Dan Carey - the man behind Mercury-nominated debut Fontaines album Dogrel and cult London label Speedy Wunderground. 

A Hero's Death Track List:

1. I Don’t Belong
2. Love Is The Main Thing
3. Televised Mind
4. A Lucid Dream
5. You Said
6. Oh Such A Spring
7. A Hero’s Death
8. Living In America
9. I Was Not Born
10. Sunny
11. No

A Hero's Death arrives 31 July 2020 via Partisan Records.

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