Modern Age Music Song of the Day: Fontaines D.C. – ‘I Don’t Belong’
Fontaines D.C. have shared the second single from their forthcoming sophomore album ‘A Hero’s Death’, out on 31st July via Partisan Records.
New cut ‘I Don’t Belong’ is a dark and reflective track and will open the new album. Frontman Grian Chatten explained: “This song is a dismissal of the expectations of other people who consider themselves loyal to you. We wanted it to be a statement, almost like the anti-‘Big’…This sentiment of not belonging can be liberating in a way, but it’s also lonely and sad. We wanted to show both sides of that type of loneliness.”
It has been released with a video shot on location on the Irish East Coast and directed remotely by the band’s bassist Connor Deegan III. The band had originally planned for a video shot in London but changed approach when the restrictions hit.
“We had to figure out how to do something remotely from back home in Ireland,” Chatten explained. “The idea was to use the limitations to our benefit. To try to match the emotional feel of the song but without being heavy-handed. Telling a visual story parallel to the lyrics.”
Check out the video HERE.