Skinty Fia
2022 studio album by Fontaines D.C. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Skinty Fia is the third studio album by Irish rock band Fontaines D.C. It was released on 22 April 2022 via Partisan Records. Like the band's two previous albums – 2019's Dogrel and 2020's A Hero's Death – Skinty Fia was produced by Dan Carey.[2] Its title refers to an old Irish saying that drummer Tom Coll's great-aunt used to say; the phrase "Skinty Fia" translates to "the damnation of the deer". Both the title and the cover art allude to the extinct Irish elk, also known as the "giant deer".[3][4]
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Released | 22 April 2022 (2022-04-22) | |||
Recorded | 2021 | |||
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Length | 44:52 | |||
Label | Partisan | |||
Producer | Dan Carey | |||
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Skinty Fia became the band's first number-one album in both Ireland and the UK.[5][6] It reached number two in the Netherlands, and also placed in the top 10 of Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.
The album garnered the band a win for the Brit Award for International Group at the 2023 Brit Awards and a nomination for Album of the Year at the Choice Music Prize for the year 2022.[7][8]