Here, then, and in no particular order, are our albums of the year . . .
Romance – Fontaines D.C.
On their fourth album, Ireland’s best band in decades ascended to another level entirely. Romance revealed just how far Grian Chatten, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, Tom Coll and Carlos O’Connell have come and what they were really capable of. By turns nihilistic, poetic, tender and yes, romantic, there is plenty of the band’s blunt post-punk but also foreboding orchestration, clanging sound effects, muted electronica, nu-metal and an empty warehouse of echoes and snatched vocals.
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