Wild XL Recordings
Producer: James Ford
If the infectious lead single “Starburster” from Dublin-born, London-based alt-rockers Fontaines D.C. hasn’t already been stuck in your heads, wait until the full-length. The album does fall prey to not living up to the sum of all its parts, and includes a few too many mildly monotonous lo-fi acoustic ballads.
Blur, Arctic Monkeys (tourmates) and even The Cure are influences, though we’d love to hear the group lean more into the ‘90s-Euro-Trip-Hop sound (White Town, The Prodigy).
