Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Haden and Jaffee had appeared

Haden and Jaffee had appeared as guest musicians on the band's previous studio album

DreamWorks was absorbed by Interscope Records

Throughout ‘Self Control

Recorded again with Lance Koehler at his Minimum Wage Studios in Richmond

The album is full of songs wiser and more nuanced than John should have been able to produce according to natural law

Fontaines D.C. "Dogrel" americana Haden and Jaffee had appearedDogrel speaks to the place of Fontaines D. C. in a broader Irish cultural lineage: the bloodline that is more Behan than Bono, evoking poets such as Kavanagh and Lynott, Chevron and MacGowan and yes, even Joyce in the expression of the universal and profoundly human experience through the prism of the local, the familiar, the real. As Lou Reed did with New York, or Ray Davies with London, or indeed The Smiths with Manchester. It's a through line that