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:
Romance (Deluxe Edition) Tracklist:
01. Romance
02. Starburster
03. Here’s The Thing
04. Desire
05. In the Modern World
06. Bug
07. Motorcycle Boy
08. Sundowner
09. Horseness Is the Whatness
10. Death Kink
11. Favourite
12. It’s Amazing To Be Young
13. Before You I Just Forget
14. Starburster / In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
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