Fontaines D.C. recorded ten new songs for "Skinty Fia" with their producer Dan Carey, calling their native Ireland, their own identity, into focus. "It's about being Irish and expressing that in London, and what you can take away to feel connected to your homeland. We've really tried to hold on to the things that made us Irish. There's a certain sentimentality when you're sitting in an Irish pub in London, surrounded by other Irish people, and it's 4 a.m. and the lights go out and you half-remember those old songs. On the other hand, there's also something somber and a little bleak about it."