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Fontaines D.C. on How The Cure, ‘Akira’ & ‘Being In a Better Place’ Inspired Its Glorious New Album ‘Romance’
Fontaines D.C. on how new album 'Romance' was inspired The Cure, 'Akira' and improved mental health.
The band is in town to do a one-off underplay gig to jump start the record’s cycle, and to play the television debut of “Starburster,” the LP’s biting, driving first single, on TheTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. As it happens, Monkeys frontman Turner was one of the boldfaced names in attendance when, two nights after my interview with Chatten, Fontaines D.C. played to a packed-out Warsaw Ballroom in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, delivering a set that included a handful of Romance tracks. That album’s harrowing “Nabokov” remains emotionally challenging to perform live, while “Starburster,” the first single from Romance, was inspired by a devastating panic attack that the singer experienced in London’s St. Pancras Station during a period when such episodes were frequent.
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