Chequeless Reckless / Boys in the Better Land

This double A-side single captures Fontaines D.C. at their most primal and urgent, long before the polish of their later studio albums. It sounds like a band trying to punch through a brick wall using only a drum kit and a few wiry guitar strings. The music is built on the foundation of 'crank wave,' a style defined by its relentless, repetitive energy and a vocal delivery that sits somewhere between a street-corner sermon and a pub-brawl threat. It is the sound of Dublin's grey skies and rain-slicked pavement translated into a rhythmic snarl.