Credits:

Grian Chatten

Description:

Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten completes his debut solo album. One of his most personal works, Chaos For The Fly, is now available.Grian Chatten will release his debut solo album, Chaos For The Fly, on Partisan Records.The Fontaines D.C. vocalist worked on the album with producer Dan Carey, who is also a member of the band's founding members, and is a member of the Fontaines D.C. band. The Fontaines D.C. vocalist worked on the album with producer Dan Carey. Thirty miles north of Dublin, along a windswept boardwalk, lies a tired casino. It is familiar to anyone who knows the rusty charm of this forgotten coastal city. Now shuttered, the lounge bar echoes with the clink of billiard balls and glasses, as well as the clatter of slot machines. This is where "Chaos For The Fly" was born. I was walking along Stony Beach one night and a song came to me in the surf. I was just standing there watching the waves. Then I heard the sound. Every part of it, from the chord progression to the string arrangement," Chatten recalls.The finished song could have been reshaped and reworked with the band members of Fontaines D.C., but Chatten decided to handle it differently. I just wanted to make this up as I went along," he says. I know where we're going next as a band, but that's not where I want to go with this song. There are some exaggerated parts of my soul that I wanted to express. The other guys are creative and songwriters in their own right. So I didn't want to go to them and say, 'No, it has to be this way. Co-produced by longtime Fontaines D.C. producer Dan Carey, the album is Chatten's most poetic work to date. He says, "A lot of this album was written with just me and one guitar, and I really like the idea of boiling down the elements. It feels like the songs are in the palm of my hand, and I can control them with just me and my guitar. It adds intensity as a result," he says.Across nine songs, "Chaos For The Fly" incorporates all the emotions and stories of life. Some are painful, to be sure, but by shaping them and bringing his voice to life, Chatten has created something of unique beauty. This is a place you will not only want to visit, but will want to return to again and again.

Tracklisting:

1.The Score
2.Last Time Every Time Forever
3.Fairlies
4.Bob's Casino
5.All Of The People
6.East Coast Bed
7.Salt Throwers Off A Truck
8.I Am So Far
9.Season For Pain