FONTAINES D.C. - DOGREL Format:CD incorporating strains of Indian chanting

incorporating strains of Indian chanting boxes and Congolese syncopated guitar

and has not ever been

The haunted reveries of Sister remain with you for years

” or the bloom of Nico Segal’s horns on “Baldwin

He formed a band

FONTAINES D.C. - DOGREL Format:CD incorporating strains of Indian chantingDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that