Skinty Fia
by Fontaines D.C.
  • Record Label: Partisan
  • Release Date: Apr 22, 2022
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 44 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 44
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 44
  3. Negative: 4 out of 44
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  1. Arliek
    Apr 24, 2022
    1
    As with all Fontaines albums there are one or two nice moments on this album (usually when they allow their folkishness show) but they are becoming a real one-trick pony. Their music is snowed under by affectation and, more importantly, tunelessness. As much as I love the Irish accent, listening to their singer repeat the same phrase over and over (and over) in a dull monotone eventuallyAs with all Fontaines albums there are one or two nice moments on this album (usually when they allow their folkishness show) but they are becoming a real one-trick pony. Their music is snowed under by affectation and, more importantly, tunelessness. As much as I love the Irish accent, listening to their singer repeat the same phrase over and over (and over) in a dull monotone eventually becomes an exercise in endurance. There are echoes of a thousand bands in this album, (Joy Division, Bauhaus, Damien Dempsey, The Pogues) but they never get near the musical or lyrical quality of any of these. Dropping literary references here and there does not literature make but that's the ineluctable modality of the visible for you.… Expand

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Metascore
85

Universal acclaim - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. PopMatters
    Apr 28, 2022
    80
    Skinty Fia is rich, diverse, and suggestive. It self-consciously roots itself in identity, culture, and style while simultaneously moving forward with the maturation of theme and sound.
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  2. Sputnikmusic
    Apr 25, 2022
    74
    Skinty Fia won't tell you much about whether that vein of insecurity that runs below the band's surface level of confidence can fuel good art indefinitely; in its best moments, though, it may make you want to hear the band crack open that ground and let their strangest selves out completely.
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  3. The Telegraph (UK)
    Apr 22, 2022
    80
    This is the darkest Fontaines DC album to date. But what drives it forward isn’t morbidity or anger, but a search for connection. It’s this that makes it not a dirge, but an oddly bright snapshot of life’s confusions from a band capable of capturing them brilliantly.
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