Fontaines D.C. Detail New Album ‘Dopamine Chamber’, Drop New Single – Our Culture

After teasing their fifth album earlier this month, Fontaines D.C. have now shared the details of Dopamine Chamber. The follow-up to 2024’s Romance comes out October 16 via XL. It’s led by the boisterous new single ‘Marianne’, which you can hear below.

The new album finds the Irish band reuniting with producer James Ford. For lyrical inspiration, frontman Grian Chatten spent time in Venice, Vienna, and Sicily, according to a press release. “I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” he explained. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted – the mask is wearing the face a little more. I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning.”

“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” Chatten remarked. “You step inside and we test these different mind – or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”

“Our albums have always questioned a sense of place,” bassist Conor Deegan added. “First Dublin, then being away from Dublin, and then trying to find the romance elsewhere. On this record, the question became: where do you escape to?”

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