It’s the humid crush of mid August, a week before the release of Fontaines’ fourth album, Romance, and I’ve come to meet the band in Charleville-Mézières, a small town that sits between France’s Champagne region and the Belgian border. They’re in town for Le Cabaret Vert, a festival they first played back in 2018; three appearances here and as many albums later, they are now near the top of the bill.
This particular performance comes in the middle of a seismic wave that has carried…

