Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia

Skinty Fia, the third album from Fontaines D.C., arrived as the band’s most ambitious and emotionally layered statement to date. Following the breakout success of A Hero’s Death — which hit #2 in the UK and earned GRAMMY, BRIT, and Ivor Novello nominations — the group returned with a record steeped in identity, displacement, and the uneasy beauty of cultural memory.

The title, a colloquial Irish exclamation roughly meaning “the damnation of the deer,” becomes a symbol threaded throughout the record: an anglicized, diluted fragment of heritage, much like the experience of the Irish diaspora that inspired the album. Across the LP, Fontaines D.C. weave together bittersweet romance, political tension, and personal reflection, crafting songs that feel like a long-distance love letter to an Ireland transformed by time, migration, and privatization.

Dark, hypnotic, and emotionally charged, Skinty Fia stands as a bold evolution for the band. Pressed on vinyl, this edition captures the full atmosphere of their most introspective and sonically expansive album yet — a record that confronts the erosion of culture while searching fiercely for what still remains.