Grian Chatten, singer of Fontaines DC during a performance in Padua 2022
Photo: Redferns, Roberto Finizio. All rights reserved.
Fontaines-DCSinger Grian Chatten announced his first solo LP on Thursday (04 May) with his second single. The single is called “Fairlies” and the Irishman’s forthcoming album is called, “Chaos for the Fly”. It will be released on June 30th. A music video with animations by Callum Scott Dyson is already available for the track, which was put online a week after his first solo song “The Score”.
Grian says of the play, “I wrote Fairlies in a great hurry. Part in Jerez, Spain, part in LA a few days before the Fontaines DC tour started. It was fast writing and I think I celebrated each line with a beer.”
The past year has been a very successful one for Fontaines DC, who debuted their third album, the critically acclaimed and Ivor Novello Award nominated Skinty Fia, at number one in both the UK and Ireland Albums Chart and winning the BRIT Award took home for the International Group of the Year.
It was followed in 2020 by “A Hero’s Death”, which was nominated for Best Rock Album at the 2021 Grammys. Her 2019 debut Dogrel was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and Ireland’s Choice Music Prize.
Why not with Fontaine’s DC?
Although he could have developed his song ideas for “Chaos for the Fly” with his Fontaines DC bandmates, Chatten decided to treat them differently.
“I just thought, ‘I want to do this myself.’ I know where we’re going next as a band and that’s not what I want to achieve with this album. I have some extraordinary aspects of my soul that I wanted to express,” he says.
According to its own statements, “Chaos for the Fly” wants to record all the emotions and stories of life in its nine songs. Some of these are painful, but by giving them shape and form and bringing those voices to life, Chatten says creates a beauty of its own.