Aslan bring an epic polish to the recording, Dignam’s vocals giving the release a shiny stadium rock gloss. It’s Aslan as their most uninhibited and emotive.
was recorded during the pandemic, shortly before his health deteriorated. It’s a cover of The Fields of Athenry – the 1979 Pete St John ballad which, depending on your perspective, is an unofficial national anthem or a self-pitying dirge that deserves to be put out to pasture.bring an epic polish to the recording, Dignam’s vocals giving the release a shiny stadium rock gloss. It’s Aslan as their most uninhibited and emotive.
What’s most impressive is how thoroughly the group conjure the “Aslan” effect on a track, which every Irish person can, for better or worst, quote by rote. Billy McGuinness and Joe Jewell’s guitars have a twinkling U2 quality. Yet the ultimate driving force is Dignam, who imbues in the lyrics a ragged earnestness. He gets under the surface of this boilerplate tune and makes it feel fresh and urgent.
Aslan’s Fields of Athenry came together during a lockdown get-together McGuinness has revealed. “We got the instruments out, and we were playing Aslan songs – and that threw us into a frame of mind of, ‘What could we do now?” he told the Mirror.
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