Name: Dogrel
Brand: Fontaines D.C.

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PTKF2166-2

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Digipack with a Lyric Booklet.

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

0720841216629

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

PTKF2166-1

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black

Black Vinyl

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Download code: Yes

720841216612

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Fontaines D.C.

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Partisan Records

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/viagra-boys-street-worms-extended">Viagra Boys - Street Worms (Extended) </a><a></a>Albums of the Month

Rough Trade Exclusive clear vinyl plus download and bonus CD with an inner sleeve signed and numbered by the band.

Street Worms, originally released in September 2018, saw the Stockholm-formed sextet Viagra Boys explode on to the scene with feverish energy and caustic irony. Their initial nine-track debut album has been expanded with five brand new songs carrying the same infectious 'ugly gonzo post-punk' spirit.

Fronted by the distinctively tattooed Sebastian 'Sebbe' Murphy (himself a tattoo artist), he delivers a devastating vocal showerstorm over the churning overdriven guitars and relentlessly driving rhythms. Singing as if he's having an existential breakdown, the lyrics tackle the absurdness of existence - as if being anything at all is some kind of joke on humanity - 'It was all a dream, but it was so nice/I had a nice house and such a lovely wife.'

Another theme the album tackles is, as their name intends to pun, man's failed role in society - and will we ever get that agenda on Sports out of our heads? 'Baseball/Basketball/Weiner dog/Short shorts/Cigarette'. They snarl at everyday behaviours such as exaggerated virility and classism, but manage to conjure some humour out of the serious issues. And despite the anger and anxiety towards masculine insufficiency, there's a sensitivity and a humanism running through the album too - 'You'll turn into dirt someday/Same dirt as me/Like one becomes a two and two becomes a three/The same worms that eat me will someday eat you too'.

All in all, Street Worms is a powerfully captivating blend of theatrics, rock’n’roll, post-punk and passion from Sweden’s answer to Idles and Sleaford Mods.

2. Fontaines D.C. - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/fontaines-d-c-dogrel">Dogrel</a>

3. Barrie - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/barrie-happy-to-be-here">Happy To Be Here</a>

4. Aldous Harding - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/aldous-harding-designer">Designer</a>

5. Big Thief - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/big-thief-u-f-o-f">U.F.O.F.</a>

6. Heather Woods Brotherick - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/heather-woods-broderick-invitation">Invitation</a>

7. Drahla - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/drahla-useless-coordinates">Useless Coordinates</a>

8. Josefin Ohrn &amp; The Liberation - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/josefin-ohrn-and-the-liberation-sacred-dreams">Sacred Dreams</a>

9. Jesse Mac Cormack - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/jesse-mac-cormack-now">Now</a>

10. Patience - <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/music/patience-dizzy-spells">Dizzy Spells</a>

Albums of The Month - May 2019

Albums of the Year 2019 Exclusives

Albums of the Year 2019 Top 100

See also Rough Trade Exclusive <a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/fontaines-d-c/darklands-versions">Darklands Versions EP</a>

The debut album from the much loved at Rough Trade Fontaines D.C. They don’t pretend to be from anywhere but Dublin, and that charges their colloquial rock’n’roll garage music with an authenticity that makes them stand apart. The album is sharp, gritty and intense. The band are locked in and the vocals mixed high with Grian Chatten's irish accent prominent.

Standouts include Hurricane Laughter which is an insistent and repetitive song built on a Mark E Smith style spoken vocal and a band who are locked into a rock n roll groove. The hook of “And there is no connection available” lingers long in your mind after the song has left the building.

Boys in the Better Land is another golden nugget that has the sound of The Modern Lovers if they'd grown up in Dublin whilst first single on Partisan Too Real is a masterclass in repetition. It employs hypnotic, kraut-rock infused cyclical riffs, whilst channeling Dublin into their concise and often-unassumingly poetic lyrics with a distinctive gritty Irish drawl.

Seriously you won't find a better debut album this year. It oozes class and is the sound of 2019.