Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten planning another solo album: “It’d be a lot more lively and a bit more kind of festival-ready”

Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten has revealed that he is planning another solo album, and is wanting to make it “a lot more lively” and “festival-ready”.

READ MORE: Fontaines D.C. – ‘Dopamine Chamber’ review: a doom-ridden escape from the band of the decade The singer shared his first and only solo record to date, ‘ Chaos For The Fly ’, back in 2023.

It came following Fontaines D.C. becoming ones to watch with their 2019’s Mercury-nominated ‘ Dogrel ’, 2020’s Grammy-nominated ‘ A Hero’s Death ’, and critically-acclaimed third album ‘ Skinty Fia ’ which dropped in 2022.

Written while amid the arduous touring cycle for Fontaines’ third album, the album saw Chatten embrace a much more subdued, introspective sound than his work as part of a band.

Led by acoustic guitars, strings and pianos, songs including ‘Bob’s Casino’ drew inspiration from poetry and felt more intimate than some of the hard-hitting bangers Chatten was recognised for by that point.

Now, Fontaines are preparing to release their fifth album ‘ Dopamine Chamber ’ tomorrow (Friday October 16), with it marking the follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed and Mercury -nominated ‘ Romance ’.

Speaking to MOJO about what the band have planned following the album release and huge 2027 tour dates , Chatten said that they would be taking some down time and think about other projects.

“The best place we can go from here is away for a while.

Take a bit of stock, and give people a break from us, maybe for a little while, after this one,” he said.

“I say that to you, but at the same time, I’m still writing a lot of music.

I feel like when you do a fair bit of writing, and it doesn’t go anywhere, and it starts to stack up, you want it to go somewhere.

So I can get a bit of oxygen or something.

I’ll probably end up just writing and writing.” Asked if that motivation to keep of writing could lead to another solo album, he replied: “Yeah, I think so.

I’ve been thinking about it recently.