The Fontaines D.C. vocalist releases a strong, sensitive solo album leaning more towards gentle, wistful, reflective folk, including some echoes of Nick Drake but retaining his strong Dublin flavour, and produced by the brilliant and prolific Dan Carey. Standouts include former Song of The Day Fairlies, which alludes to Irish emigration to America, The Score, Last Time Every Time Forever, East Coast Bed, the orchestration-rich Vegas-style crooner Bob’s Casino, closing track Season For Pain, and the strummingly poetic New York-based Salt Throwers Off A Truck: “When February came it came straight for New York / Any colder - they said- and we’ll be skating to work / Salt throwers were taming the sidewalks with haste / Til the whole of the city was seasoned to taste / The world was a yawn fingerprinted by night …” Written as a gentler aside in between the main band material, it’s an alluring set of numbers with a dynamic range of sounds, largely acoustic, thoughtful and vivid. Out on Partisan Records.
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