Fontaines D.C. had an enormous 2024 with the discharge of Romance, one of many greatest albums of the yr. Now, the Dublin band is already again with a brand new track known as “It’s Wonderful To Be Younger.”
“It’s Wonderful To Be Younger” is akin to the Romance spotlight “Favorite,” emanating a jangly and wistful sound. Concerning the tune, Conor Deegan III mentioned:
“It’s Wonderful To Be Younger” is a track that was written within the presence of a new child baby — Carlos’ baby. It sounded extra like a lullaby or a music field then, however with the identical lyric — “it’s wonderful to be younger.” The sensation of hope a toddler can provide is profound and shifting, particularly for younger males like us. That sense of desirous to create a world for them to develop up in fortunately. It’s a sense that fights in opposition to the cynicism that may typically overtake us within the trendy world. So we wished to declare which aspect we have been on — it truly is wonderful to be younger. We’re nonetheless free, and need to make that feeling unfold. We need to defend it for the others round us, and possibly in doing that, may assist defend it for ourselves.
The observe comes with a music video directed by Luna Carmoon, who defined:
I really like this new observe — it’s one in every of my favorites Fontaines have executed and I really like that I acquired to finish the trilogy of movies for it. It was all pure and sort of a shock that the three movies got here collectively. I’ve started working with such an exquisite crew and was actually given the area and breath to create the worlds that mechanically got here to me when listening to the music. I really feel like we’re residing on this bizarre time the place romantic love is being pushed to the aspect, and intercourse and love is unvirtuous and now not what individuals need to see. I don’t imagine that in any respect. I really like that these two individuals have fallen in love with themselves, and I wished to see them fall in love with one another. I planted the seed after I did the carjitsu video (“In The Fashionable World”) after which I had a few days to jot down the video for “It’s Wonderful To Be Younger.” There are a number of odes to Santa Sangre it. It additionally jogs my memory of my first quick movie Shagbands.
The music video arrives tomorrow morning. “It’s Wonderful To Be Younger” may also be out there on restricted version 7” vinyl that includes a brand new b-side titled “Earlier than You I Simply Overlook.” Hear “It’s Wonderful To Be Younger” under.
