Album Review: Fontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber (opens in new tab)
The idea of cultural recurrence is very appealing to me.
Neofolk on LoudQuietLoud: about 100 artists, including Cosmo Sheldrake, Key and Death in June. It runs alongside dark folk, martial industrial and medieval.

The idea of cultural recurrence is very appealing to me.
The Irish band’s fifth album balances profound cynicism and genuine beauty as its ice-hearted stadium rock grows to darkly apocalyptic proportions.
Fontaines D.C.’s last album, ‘Romance’, saw the Dublin quintet morph into Guitar Hero-style characters, remixing the unbuttoned shirts of post-punk past into something edgy, bold and cool.
“I can see the future and I can tell you’re smiling,” sings Nighttime’s Eva Louise Goodman on “Mother of Invention,” a quiet confidence in her voice.
Some records evoke another era, and then there are those that seem untouched by chronology.