Grian Chatten – klipdalok a Fontaines D.C. frontemberének Chaos For The Fly szólóalbumáról

Grian Chattent már hallhattuk anyazenekara nélkül az angol spoken word előadó Kae Tempest tavalyi The Line Is A Curve című nagylemezének I Saw Light duettjében és a Leftfield tánczenei kollektíva szintén 2022-es This Is What We Do albumának Full Way Round című számában, de most egy önálló lemezanyaggal is bizonyítani akar. „Arra gondoltam: ezt én magam akarom megcsinálni. Tudom, hogy zenekarként merre haladunk tovább, de ezzel az anyaggal nem arra szeretnék menni. Van a lelkemnek pár túlzó szélsőséges aspektusa, amit ki akartam fejezni” – mondja Chaos For The Fly címmel bejelentett első szólóalbumáról, melyet a Fontaines D.C. brit producerével, Dan Carey-vel rögzített.

A múlt hónapban barátnője, Georgie Jesson klipjével bemutatott The Score című nyitódalt Grian még tavaly írta Madridban, ahogy a Callum Scott-Dyson animációjával ma közzétett Fairlies című számot is részben spanyolországi forróságban komponálta, Jerez városában (a másik részét meg Los Angelesben).

When I make my move to you
You will know
See I am that wave that breaks below
I will give you thrills and take your pain
I will lay you down
Like a shadow
Like a stain

You know the score
It ain’t limited to your knowing looks
and touches anymore

Cuz when you make his love
you turn alone
You see your heart’s been tethered
to a sinking stone

You know the score
It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore
You know the score
It ain’t limited to your knowing looks and touches anymore

When I make my move to you
You will know

Kindness is a trick to turn you strange
Til you’re twisted and you’re shining like a varicose vein
Anger makes you weak and turns you sick
And gets you in the six feet nice and quick

No fair
They can talk to me
I can live alone
I can live alone
Happy
Where I like to be
I can live alone alone alone alone
I fought
For the right to be
I can live alone
I can live alone

The fairies get their fingers and they spin your wheel
And they make you look at sunshine that your skin will never feel
Baby do you miss the days before
Hope knocked on your door?
But you
went and fell in love
And into you love fell
And it made you feel unwell
Oh well

There’s a thing about people that I suppose is alright
It’s when they smile right at their pain through all the day and night
The fool dies at the altar in a smile
Says “I’m moving to America
You won’t see me for a while”
If I get the ferry over will the fairies follow me?
Will they throw me to the sea?
We’ll see

No fair
They can follow me
I can live alone
I can live alone
Happy
Where I like to be
I can live alone alone alone alone
I fought
For the right to be
I can live alone
I can live alone

When the devil takes your soul
he does not care
If you’re shot down like a dog
or expired on the stairs
The boat is drifting in, the weight is cast,
How can life go so slowly,
and death come so fast?
Across the River Styx I’ll row along
But I’ve got one more song
More song
More song
More song

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FRISSÍTÉS: június folyamán a Last Time Every Time Forever és All Of The People című dalok videói is megérkeztek!

All my words
They fail me now
And I have seen it all
and I have no doubt
That an alonely thing
You surely are
Could be a fixture made
In a face down bar
Where they go out their way
To be hurtful now
And you can see the world
Written in their brow

And I can see them all
They laugh in spite
They have no right
Last time every time forever

Yesterday I met you
And the feelings gone
You can baby me
But you won’t baby long
Yesterday can keep ye
Where the feeling’s strong
You can take from me
But you won’t be taking long

(Give him loving I do
I do I do
Give him loving I do
Yeah)

Fed the birds
On a lap round town
Got a peculiar thought
nearly struck me down
Am I the wingless one
that keeps me here?
Is to articulate a wish
My one great gear
Without a chance I’m king
Of every single thing
And it’s the cheapest spend
To make a dead heart sing

And I keep them all
And laugh in spite
I have the right
Last time, every time, forever

You think I’m about ye
Well I’m not
The centre of my world
Is a hotspot
You think that you know me
you’re below me
And you don’t

All of the people
They can fly
Straight to the white hotel
Up In the sky
I’m hard as my money
Yeah, you’re soft as a lie

Well a smile could be made so endless
Just happy, free and friendless
No paper lending
Just time, spending
Yeah

You think that you love me
But you don’t
You think that you know me
Yeah well you just don’t
Did you know I’m into your brother?
Did you know that I hated your show?
Tell me who exactly do you think you know?

People are scum
I will say it again
Don’t let anyone tell you that
They wanna be your friend
They just wanna get close enough to
Take the final shot
They will celebrate the things that make you who you’re not
They will criticise
All of the people

Well a smile could be made so endless
Just happy, free and friendless
No paper lending
Just time spending

She’s standing in line now
At the funfair
Fistful of tokens
And charm to spare
What kind of fool would follow signs that were never there?
All of the people
All of the people

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a Chaos For The Fly album számlistája az alábbi Bandcamp-lejátszón:

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Grian Chatten a Fontaines D.C. tavalyi Sziget-koncertjén:

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az idén márciusban közzétett legutóbbi Fontaines D.C.-felvétel, a tragikus sorsú angol dalszerző-gitáros-énekes Nick Drake (1948–1974) előtt tisztelgő The Endless Coloured Ways című dupla tribute albumhoz adott feldolgozás a néhai dalnok 1969-es Cello Songjából:

a július 7-én megjelenő feldolgozáslemez beharangozó kisfilmje és számlistája a neves közreműködőkkel:

The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs Of Nick Drake (2023)

1. The Wandering Hearts – Voice From A Mountain (prelude)
2. Fontaines D.C – Cello Song
3. Camille – Hazey Jane II
4. Mike Lindsay featuring Guy Garvey – Saturday Sun
5. Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves – Road
6. Let’s Eat Grandma – From The Morning
7. David Gray – Place To Be
8. John Parish & Aldous Harding – Three Hours
9. Stick In The Wheel – Parasite
10. Ben Harper – Time Has Told Me
11. Emeli Sandé – One Of These Things First
12. Karine Polwart & Kris Drever – Northern Sky
13. Craig Armstrong featuring Self Esteem – Black Eyed Dog
14. Bombay Bicycle Club & The Staves – Road (reprise)
15. Nadia Reid – Poor Boy
16. Christian Lee Hutson featuring Eleanor Moss – Which Will
17. Skullcrusher & Gia Margaret – Harvest Breed
18. Katherine Priddy – I Think They’re Leaving Me Behind
19. AURORA – Pink Moon
20. Joe Henry & Meshell Ndegeocello – Time Of No Reply
21. Famous Blue Cable featuring Feist – River Man
22. Liz Phair – Free Ride
23. Philip Selway – Fly
24. John Grant – Day Is Done
25. The Wandering Hearts – Voice From A Mountain