Fontaines D.C. share taster of new music and dark Kubrick-esque teaser for new album ‘Romance’

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Fontaines D.C. are continuing to tease new music with a Stanley Kubrick-inspired clip ahead of their new album ‘Romance’.The Irish post-punk group started to hint at new music last week with a 30-second clip in which frontman Grian Chatten is seen topless and in bright green trousers, with a black, swollen eye and heavy cuts and bruises all over.

He is petting a pig, while the mystery song plays over the top.Now, they’ve followed that clip with a new 90-second visualiser that takes inspiration from Kubrick’s The Shining.

It features an empty hallway with two small brown armchairs sitting opposite each other, adjacent from an orange set of elevator doors in a clear nod to the iconic 1980 film.

However, where in the film the doors open to reveal a river of blood, Fontaines’ clip uses green gunge pouring out of the doors instead.The song playing the background begins eerie and slow, over which Chatten sings: “Into the darkness again / In with the pigs in the pen / God knows I love you / Screws in my head /nI will be beside you till you’re dead.” As the music swells and becomes more intense, the neon green gunge gushes out of the doors.Check out the ‘Romance’ teaser below:A post shared by Fontaines D.C. (@fontainesband)‘Romance’ will mark Fontaines D.C.’s first original music since 2022’s ‘Skinty Fia’.