Days ahead of kicking off their 2025 North American tour in Seattle, Fontaines D.C. have released a deluxe edition of their acclaimed 2024 album, Romance, featuring three new tracks: “Before You I Just Forget,” the previously-released single “It’s Amazing to Be Young,” and a mash-up of “Starburster” and David Lynch’s “In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song).”
Now spanning 14 tracks in total, the deluxe version of Romance reaffirms why Consequence named the band our 2024 Band of the Year, melding their post-punk grit with dreamy moments of introspection. The new track, “Before You I Just Forget,” does this by balancing a swaggering, almost spoken-word refrain with melodic interludes colored by string parts and chorused guitar arpeggios.
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Speaking about “Before You I Just Forget,” the band’s Conor Curley said the song “started with a vision of this really blown out sound, something that heaved and shifted with new details, becoming apparent every time you would listen.” In its final form, the song “morphs and changes,” Curley continued, “like never being able to step in the same river twice.” Concluding, he commended the “incredible string part by Grian [Chatten].”
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As for “Starburster / In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song),” the mash-up serves as both a celebration for the late David Lynch (who passed this past January) and a as a platform to place the band’s hit — and one of the best songs of 2024 — “Starburster,” in a new stripped-back context, with a piano-led arrangement and raw, intimate vocals from Chatten. Stream the new tracks below.
As for their 2025 tour, Fontaines D.C. will kick off their North American leg on April 17th, with stops booked in Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, and more cities (get tickets). In May, they’ll wrap the US tour with a three-night run at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom, and will then hop the pond for a European tour beginning in June.
Romance (Deluxe Edition) Artwork:
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<p><strong><em>Romance (Deluxe Edition)</em> Tracklist:</strong><br />01. Romance<br />02. Starburster<br />03. Here’s The Thing<br />04. Desire<br />05. In the Modern World<br />06. Bug<br />07. Motorcycle Boy<br />08. Sundowner<br />09. Horseness Is the Whatness<br />10. Death Kink<br />11. Favourite<br />12. It’s Amazing To Be Young<br />13. Before You I Just Forget<br />14. Starburster / In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)</p>
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