The multidisciplinary artist Kae Tempest has been rolling out their new album The Line Is A . The guitarist/songwriter explains how he came up with his signature sound, and deconstructs some classic Fear Factory songs. There was a little courtyard and across from the courtyard, there was a really old couple. It allows me to express myself fully. Im very paranoid about staying the same. You tell all these stories about eccentric Irish characters and people you meet in pubs. Even when things seem to return to something like normality, as on the thudding title track, it still goes and flummoxes you by chucking some doo-wop harmonies into the mix. He looks back with horror on those first few months at home, describing them as some of the darkest times of his life. It felt very structured or something like that, and easy, Chatten says. You want reminders of the fact that youre part of this group of people that are still sort of mocked and told to go home. It gave the band their first Number One on both the official UK and Irish album charts. I didnt take well to it at all, he remembers. As cities and towns passed by in a blur of gigging, members started drinking too much and falling out. "London Bridge," "Ring Around the Rosie" and "It's Raining, It's Pouring" are just a few examples of shockingly morbid children's songs. I realized that that was an interesting place for me to go on the next record., The rest of the album took shape back in London during dreamy night sessions at the bands rehearsal space. Fontaines D.C. Mull Cultural Dilution at a Surreal Party in New 'Skinty Fia' Video, Jackie Down the Line Joyce would be more intellectually orientated, for most of his writings. So its a novel experience to read the artist biography for A Heros Death, the second album from Fontaines DC. Like everyone, Covid has forced Chatten to spend an inordinate amount of time at home over the past 21 months. What does it mean for music to have a Dublin accent? And here we are, at last, at the real point of conflict for the singer in Fontaines D.C.: the writing and making of music versus its promotion and projection. Before he was a rock'n'roll frontman, Grian Chatten was a sporty lad in Ireland seeking a weirder, wilder identity. A lot of the album is built upon that experience, that feeling. T&Cs apply. Subscribe to Uncut today and never miss an issue. Send us your questions for Adam Granduciel!
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