Fontaines D.C. have launched a brand new single, ‘It’s Superb to Be Younger’. It’s a sprightly, wide-eyed music within the vein of the band’s Romance nearer ‘Favorite’, and it is going to be accessible on restricted version 7” vinyl that includes a brand new B-side referred to as ‘Earlier than You I Simply Neglect’. It arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Luna Carmoon. Test it out beneath.
“‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’ is a music that was written within the presence of a new child youngster — Carlos’ youngster. It sounded extra like a lullaby or a music field then, however with the identical lyric — ‘it’s wonderful to be younger,’” the band’s Conor Deegan III defined in an announcement. “The sensation of hope a toddler may give is profound and shifting, particularly for younger males like us. That sense of eager to create a world for them to develop up in fortunately. It’s a sense that fights towards the cynicism that may typically overtake us within the fashionable world. So we needed to declare which facet we had been on — it truly is wonderful to be younger. We’re nonetheless free, and wish to make that feeling unfold. We wish to shield it for the others round us, and perhaps in doing that, also can assist shield it for ourselves.”
Concerning the music video, Carmoon mentioned: “I like this new monitor — it’s certainly one of my favorites Fontaines have achieved and I like that I received to finish the trilogy of movies for it. It was all pure and sort of a shock that the three movies got here collectively. I’ve started working with such a good looking staff and was actually given the area and breath to create the worlds that robotically got here to me when listening to the music. I really feel like we’re residing on this bizarre time the place romantic love is being pushed to the facet, and intercourse and love is unvirtuous and not what individuals wish to see. I don’t consider that in any respect. I like that these two individuals have fallen in love with themselves, and I needed to see them fall in love with one another. I planted the seed after I did the carjitsu video (‘In The Fashionable World’) after which I had a few days to jot down the video for ‘It’s Superb To Be Younger’. There are a whole lot of odes to Santa Sangre it. It additionally jogs my memory of my first brief movie Shagbands.”
