Fontaines DC nominated for Grammy Award for Best Rock Album

Fontaines D.C. have been nominated for their first Grammy Award. In a live-streamed ceremony, the Dublin band were announced as nominees in the Best Rock Album category for their acclaimed second album A Hero's Death, alongside the likes of The Strokes, Sturgill Simpson, Grace Potter and Michael Kiwanuka.

Congratulations 63rd #GRAMMYs Best Rock Album nominees: @fontainesdublin, @michaelkiwanuka, @gracepotter, Sturgill Simpson, and @thestrokes: https://t.co/teAbOeBzZ9 pic.twitter.com/8IBL5YoddY

— Recording Academy / GRAMMYs (@RecordingAcad) November 24, 2020

"It is an album that recklessly tears down the sheltering sky," Will Russell wrote in his review of A Hero's Death for Hot Press. "It hacks the televised minds of a soul-sucked citizenry fed on a vomit of advertising platitudes. Reminiscent of The Clash, Fontaines D.C. have planted a defiant flag around which to rally. 'I was not born into this world, to do another man’s bidding,' sings Chatten, nor does he 'want to belong to anyone'."

Read the full review here, and revisit our recent cover story interview with Fontaines D.C. here.

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