Incendiary duo Kneecap have shared new single ‘Fine Art’.
The band have stormed across 2024, with their underground reputation catching the attention of the mainstream. Radio is opening up to Kneecap, while the group caused a stir at the Sundance Film Festival, with their self-titled, Rich Peppiatt directed, semi-biopic film starring Michael Fassbender.
The band’s new album lands on July 14th via Heavenly Recordings, with new single ‘Fine Art’ leading the way. The ultra-energetic production adds a kind of cartoonish intensity, the day-glo colours augmented by choppy hip-hop beats.
The track veers from Irish language bars to that potent sample, flipping the original intent of those words to embrace a new notion of ‘fine art’.
In a note, Kneecap label the song as being inspired by “the mental reaction of the media to our mural unveiling of a police jeep on fire.”
The group’s Mo Chara says…
“The mural ended up on the BBC with Steven Nolan who’s like the Piers Morgan of the North of Ireland. They had a massive debate about the painting, and he says, ‘The band Kneecap claim the mural is just a piece of fine art’. So we sampled it into a dance tune and dropped it in where it kicks. That’s where the title comes from – when we were getting stick about the mural that’s the term we used. Because that’s the best description isn’t it? If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. It’s still fine art.”
Tune in now.
