Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana outdistancing its nearest opponent (Neil

outdistancing its nearest opponent (Neil Young's Freedom) by 21 votes and 260 points

Throughout ‘Self Control

Haden and Jaffee had appeared as guest musicians on the band's previous studio album

Now after that long wait

wondrous strings reminiscent of Curtis Mayfield and Bernard Herrmann orchestrations abound

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana outdistancing its nearest opponent (NeilDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that