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Fontaines D.C. on how The Beach Boys inspired their second album: “We wanted to make something a bit more subversive”

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Fontaines D.C. have opened up on how The Beach Boys proved to be an unexpected influence on their latest record.The Dublin band are set to release ‘A Hero’s Death’ on July 31, the follow-up to 2019’s ‘Dogrel’.Despite being worlds apart in their sound, frontman Grian Chatten says that the legendary US group’s use of a capella proved to be an unlikely influence.“It’s inspired by the stillness of the sea,” Grian told NME in this week’s Big Read. “Kinda like later Beach Boys.“I’m not saying we’re anywhere near the Beach Boys in terms of harmonising or singing or anything like that, but we’d sing a capella a lot in the back of the van, practice harmonies and figure out how to arrange them properly.

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