Fontaines D.C. Chase Dopamine 2026-08-19 by John Marinakis CONTRIBUTOR | 8 Comments | Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber due October 16 through XL Recordings.
Produced by James Ford, the album follows the band's platinum-certified 2024 release Romance. Its first single, Marianne explores escapism and was partly inspired by the 2024 television adaptation of Ripley. The accompanying video was directed by Dave Meyers.
Dopamine Chamber examines the pursuit of pleasure within an increasingly troubled world, where artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence compete for attention alongside memes and celebrity culture.
Musically, the record pushes Fontaines D.C. toward colder and more synthetic territory through synthesizers, samples and marching rhythms, with several songs reportedly featuring no guitars. Recording took place across London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Grian Chatten recorded his vocals inside a makeshift booth constructed from mattresses and pillows.
Chatten has characterized the album as less hopeful than its predecessor and closer to a warning about humanity's increasingly uneasy relationship with automation and emotional detachment.
https://pitchfork.com/story/fontaines-dc-announce-new-album-dopamine-chamber-share-single
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So hyped. Deluxe version of the last album was one of my favorites of the decade so far
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Song rips, hopefully the rest of the album will follow this sound
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Double comment, obviously
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said the same thing when i heard starburster, then ended up being super disappointed when romance came out. it ended up growing on me a lot, but yeah initially i was kinda bummed that nothing else really sounded like it lol
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Yeah, that's exactly what happened to me lmao
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Where are the guitars
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Romance got me into this band. And this is ace. Something to look forward to!
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Damn everyone's trying to bring the 80s back lol... I love this though
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