Fontaines D. C. : Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Ann Powers, May 17, 2022 Filmed in Chicagos beautiful brick Irish American Heritage Center during a recent tour, this foursong set begins with Fontaines D. C. singer Grian Chatten in the stacks at the centers library, playing a button accordion and singing the mordant ballad The Couple Across the Way as cellist Maureen Dunne and violist Isaac Henry accompany him. An emotional touchstone on the bands latest album, Skinty Fia, its a taste of an unfinished Fontaines project: the Irish group originally planned to release a double set with half traditionallystyled tunes and half the searing, atmospheric postpunk that makes this third LP the bands best. But we wont stay here in the quiet, unsettled heart. Chatten ambles over to the libra