Alex Kapranos tells us about the band feeling like the ultimate version of themselves, how pop music is growing "stale" and feeding people's "genuine desire for the rawness and the depth you can only get from a band"
"'Stranger’ contains the toughest theme we sing about in 'Viva Hinds'. Feeling the heaviness of existence and not recognising your own self. Fontaines D.C. taught us to embrace that darkness"
The Camden Electric Ballroom gig celebrating the release of the band's fourth album saw the likes of Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy and Florence Welch in attendance