Dogrel

Dogrel is the debut studio album by Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C., produced and mixed by Dan Carey. [Dogrel is] an Irish working class form of poetry – most commonplace in the time of the Boer war in South Africa. It’s the basis of most of the Dubliners lyrics like schooldays over. We wanted a title that reflected the importance of both Irishness and Rock and Roll to us – Dogrel is both which is unreal. Taking poetry from the pretentiousness of the upper classes and making it useful and yours is the bones of who we made ourselves to be as people. —Fontaines D.C., in a Reddit AMA The reason Dogrel as an album name worked so well – we never wanted to be those people to take themselves so seriously. It’s a put down at the same time as trying to put ourselves into the history of Irish poetry. — Conor Deegan III via Loud and Quiet

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Dogrel is the debut studio album by Dublin post-punk band Fontaines D.C., produced and mixed by Dan Carey. [Dogrel is] an Irish working class form of poetry – most commonplace in the time of the Boer war in South Africa. It’s the basis of most of the Dubliners lyrics like schooldays over. We wanted a title that reflected the importance of both Irishness and Rock and Roll to us – Dogrel is both which is unreal. Taking poetry from the pretentiousness of the upper classes and making it useful and yours is the bones of who we made ourselves to be as people. —Fontaines D.C., in a Reddit AMA The reason Dogrel as an album name worked so well – we never wanted to be those people to take themselves so seriously. It’s a put down at the same time as trying to put ourselves into the history of Irish poetry. — Conor Deegan III via Loud and Quiet

via Genius — lyrics & more ↗