Kneecap dropped Fenian on May 1, 2026, the second album from the Belfast/Derry trio that has spent the last 18 months getting banned by countries, dragged into UK terrorism court, and stripped of US visa sponsorship after Coachella 2025. The album landed at 82 on Metacritic. The Irish Times gave it five stars. Heavenly Recordings put it out, Dan Carey produced it, and the lead single “Fenian” features Casiokids, which is a sentence nobody had on their 2026 bingo card. The story underneath the album is more interesting than the tracklist. Kneecap have been calling themselves a parody act for years. They rap in Irish over breakbeats about cocaine, Free Derry, and the British state, and the joke worked because the British state kept obliging by reacting like the joke was a threat. With Fenian they say they want to be taken seriously as musicians. The catch: the seriousness only landed because the parody got prosecuted first.…