Elton is right: the DC Fontaines are the best band of today

When at the beginning of their path we interviewed them and we started talking about it, now six years agoin the silence of much of the sector media, in several they wrote to us “But who are these?”, “They will disappear”, “they make music already felt”. The usual morality of social networks. We followed the tracks, the companiesgoing up to unbalanced, also there in the middle of the controversy, defining “Skinty Fia” from 2022 a masterpieceone of the most beautiful records in recent years. Judgment, among other things, unchanged. The DC Fontaines today are one of the most relevant band in the world, Elton John has simply called it “the best in circulation”, also praising their latest “romance” project, released in 2024. A more pop-rock album, more melodic, which allowed the group led by electricity Grian chattento open up to a vast audience and to make the big leap. The right disc at the right time.

With Italythe DC Fontaines have a special relationship, the many dates scheduled for these years demonstrate this, Up to a carroponte, in Sesto San Giovanni, sold out from a lot of time, with twelve thousand people present, after the dates of Bologna and Rome. A triumph. The scheduled lineup is very similar to that of last November at the Alcatraz, when the concert was not exactly clean. In addition, to report, there is one of the new singles “It’s amazing to be Young”, at the beginning totally underestimated and today became, in a few months, one of their most dreamy pieces. The reasons to see them live are different and solid. First of all, the DC Fontaines play from the beginning to the end with remarkable attention to the shades of the sound. It is not a question of virtuosity, but of substance. What is released by the band’s tools is something recognizable, enveloping, that has no mediation and that does not use mezzucci to look cooler.

From the beginning to the final greetingsthe group transports in a precise dimension, which does not mean to untie from reality, but to open a door within it to explore it with lucidity. It is not over. The texts as a mantra to perform exorcisms, the scenography, between lights and screens, which accompanies the neurotic, agitated, sentimentally impetuous performance of the singer, are the columns on which the second reason is based so they deserve to be lived from under a stage. And here another aspect of their way of making music is kept, as well as another reason to follow them: viscerality. Fontaines slide on the skin, enter inside and seem to tighten the organs, in a mix of pleasure and pain. There is existentialism in what they sound, romanticism. A romanticism, a love that “perhaps is a place”, as they sing in “romance”a safe space in which everyone is one while the world is screaming and burning outside, as they have reminded us for years, with strong commitment, Asking the end of the war and massacres in Gaza. The fontaines are also this: they bring another part with their dream sounds, but they never forget reality.

Scaletta:

Here’s the Thing
Jackie Down The Line

Boys in the Better Land
TV MIND
Roman Holiday
Big shot
Death Kink
Before you just forget

Hurricane Laughter
It’s amazing to be Young
Bug
Horseness is the Whatness
Nabokov

A Hero’s Death
Big
Favouritis
Romance
Ease
In The Modern World
I love you
Starburster