The sound of a band expanding their universe – growing bigger and bolder with each record – never loses its thrill. Upon their arrival in 2017, in an era when guitar music was regularly declared to be in terminal decline, Fontaines D.C. powered on through, painting in primary colours and frontman Grian Chatten’s vivid poetry. If their first three albums, culminating in 2022’s Skínty Fía, seemed intent on rebooting indie rock, it made 2024’s Romance and their abrupt pivot into electronics all the more surprising – not least because the band also underwent a sudden 1990s visual makeover of floppy hairdos and rave colours.
It’s worth remembering that, for the members of Fontaines D.C., that decade is as distant as the 1960s were to Oasis and Blur. And so, in…

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