Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – today announce the full tracklist for their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released 16th October. Produced by James Ford, Dopamine Chamber features the first guest artist on a Fontaines D.C. album – ROSALÍA on ‘Where Is Gone?’.
Dopamine Chamber is the follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most seductive music yet. Preceded by lead single ‘Marianne’, the album 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 peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. “The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”
The Irish five piece have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the UK and Irish No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet. It was made with Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions. “There’s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” says Chatten. For their fifth album, Fontaines D.C. have built the chamber. What happens to the listener inside it will be the experiment.
Reflecting the anticipation around the new album, Fontaines D.C. recently announced their biggest ever headline shows. 2026 has seen them selling out arenas across the UK and Europe – in addition to sold out US dates – while 2027 will see the band performing huge outdoor and stadium shows. These include two nights at Ireland’s legendary Slane Castle (26th and 27th June), Blackweir Fields, Cardiff (29th June), St James’ Park, Newcastle (1st July), Heaton Park, Manchester (3rd and 4th July), Glasgow Green (6th July) and London Stadium (9th July). For further details head here.
Pre-order / pre-save Dopamine Chamber here.
