{"id":463945,"date":"2026-05-01T22:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:14:12","slug":"fenian-by-kneecap-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/463945\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenian by Kneecap album review:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It is not all filth and fury on \u2018Fenian\u2019, which is at its strongest with tracks that are in a more contemplative mood\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"New album: M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed of Kneecap. Photo: Shirlaine Forrest\/WireImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/172cf451-42da-4b6c-8b5c-67813941f808.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">New album: M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap, Mo Chara and DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed of Kneecap. Photo: Shirlaine Forrest\/WireImage<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kneecap have been inescapable over the past year. There have been charges of supporting terrorism which resulted in a UK high court case \u2013 later thrown out \u2013 battles with Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, accusations of antisemitism, which they have strongly denied, travel bans to Canada and Hungary, outrage in the US and on and on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s easy to forget that the Belfast-Derry trio are first and foremost a musical entity. But that music has very much taken a backseat since the release of their breakthrough album Fine Art in 2024. Now, just about everyone has a view on Kneecap, whether they have heard their music or not. Love or loathe them, they have been largely reduced to caricature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not all filth and fury on \u2018Fenian\u2019, which is at its strongest with tracks that are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,17689,4066,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-463945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-meagher","13":"tag-kneecap","14":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116501628322854304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}