Fontaines D.C. "Skinty Fia" 2025-02-21 " Make Up the Breakdown

" Make Up the Breakdown delivered on the promise hinted at on the EP

"Stand Above Me" and "Dream Of Me

what Ward calls “a fresh slate

Kid A MNESIA

and Jonny "Dizzy" Moore on the trumpet

Fontaines D.C. "Skinty Fia" 2025-02-21 " Make Up the Breakdown2020s A Heros Death saw Fontaines D. C. land a #2 album in the UK, receive nominations at the GRAMMYs, BRITs and Ivor Novello Awards, and sell out Londons iconic Alexandra Palace. Now the band return with their third record in as many years: Skinty Fia. Used colloquially as an expletive, the title roughly translates from the Irish language into English as the damnation of the deer; the spelling crassly anglicized, and its meaning diluted through