Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber

Expected Release 16th October 2026

Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it is the follow-up to 2024s UK platinum-certified Romance and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic. It arrives today alongside lead single Marianne and its accompanying video, directed by Dave Meyers.

Dopamine Chamber arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid periland what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. Grian Chatten, Carlos OConnell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artifi