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Fontaines D.C. Album Covers

3 album covers in our archive

Behind the Covers currently documents 3 Fontaines D.C. album covers from 2019 to 2024. Read together, the entries show how the artwork changed from release to release, with each story identifying the designers, photographers, source material, and design decisions behind the sleeve.

Cover evolution

Fontaines D.C. · 2019–2024

  1. 2019
    Dogrel by Fontaines D.C. — 2019
    Dogrel
  2. 2022
    Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C. — 2022
    Skinty Fia
  3. 2024
    Romance by Fontaines D.C. — 2024
    Romance
Romance by Fontaines D.C. — album cover art

Romance (2024)

The cover of Romance announces a new Fontaines D.C. before a note is heard. Its neon color and unsettling illustration belong to a world of fantasy, dread and exaggerated emotion rather than the archival Irish imagery associated with the band's earliest records. The shift is deliberate: by 2024 the group was interested in a wider, stranger visual language.

Label
XL Recordings
Designer
Carlos O'Connell and Texas Maragh (art direction and design)
Genre
Rock, Alternative
Decade
2020s
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Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C. — album cover art

Skinty Fia (2022)

A deer stands inside a house, stranded beneath a red light. It is an arresting image for Skinty Fia, Fontaines D.C.'s third album, because the animal seems both majestic and terribly out of place. The cover makes a familiar domestic hallway feel threatening, as though something from an older landscape has wandered into a world that no longer has room for it.

Label
Partisan Records
Genre
Rock, Alternative
Decade
2020s
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Dogrel by Fontaines D.C. — album cover art

Dogrel (2019)

The cover of Fontaines D.C.'s debut album Dogrel looks backwards before the music even begins. A figure caught in a moment of performance occupies a photograph taken by Bruce Davidson at Duffy & Sons circus in Ireland in 1967. Its shadows and vulnerability give the image a human unease that fits a band writing about Dublin without turning the city into a postcard.

Label
Partisan Records
Designer
Matt de Jong
Photographer
Bruce Davidson
Genre
Rock, Alternative
Decade
2010s
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