Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) release new single ‘Tongue’ – the second song from the band’s forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber, released 16th October. The song is accompanied by a John Angus Stewart-directed video, shot in New York City, watch here.
Following the success of the opulent, rousing first single ‘Marianne’, ‘Tongue’ showcases another side of Dopamine Chamber’s expansive sound. “We continued where Romance left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed,” says Conor Curley of the song’s recording process. Conor Deegan created the slouchy bass by manipulating tape speed – a technique often used by Prince – evoking the loose, pitched character of sampled hip-hop bass. Carlos O’Connell pushed Chatten’s vocal through a sampler, distorting its pitch until it resembles a malicious extraterrestrial voice. Guitars screech, piano bellows and strings and orchestration gradually break apart the track’s stoic façade. The result is one of Dopamine Chamber’s most visceral songs: physical, garbled and alive, even as its human components are processed into unfamiliar shapes.
The band also announce arena shows in Perth and Adelaide in February 2027, marking their biggest Australian headline shows to date. Returning to Australia and New Zealand for the just-announced 2027 edition of Laneway Festival, Fontaines D.C. will continue their run of arena shows down under, following their biggest-ever tour across the UK and Europe, which kicks off in October.
Tickets go on general sale for the Perth and Adelaide headline shows at 11 am local time on Friday 9th October, here. Artist pre-sale begins at 11 am local time on Wednesday 7th October. Handsome Tours and Spotify’s pre-sale begins at 11am local time on Thursday 8th October.
To celebrate the release of Dopamine Chamber – Fontaines D.C. have announced global listening parties taking place Thursday 8th October in local record stores. Attendees will have an opportunity to hear the new album and take home exclusive giveaway items (whilst stocks last) including a tote bag, 20-page zine, die-cut sticker, postcard set & A2 poster. Enquire with your local participating record store listed below for event times, entry, and further information.
Dopamine Chamber – Global Listening Parties – Australian Stores
Abicus • Badlands Vinyl • Beatdisc Records • BnD Music Factory • Bondi Records • Clarity Records • Crosstalk Records • Happy Valley • Landspeed Records • Midland Records • Music Farmers • Popcultcha • Record Paradise • Red Eye Records • Rocking Horse Records • Rocksteady Records • Sonic Sherpa • Tommy Gun Records
Reflecting the anticipation around the new album, Fontaines D.C. were announced yesterday as co-headliners of Laneway Festival 2027. A limited transparent yellow vinyl Laneway edition of Fontaines D.C.’s forthcoming album Dopamine Chamber will be available to purchase alongside Laneway Festival tickets. Fontaines D.C. will also play their largest Australian headline shows to date with sideshows in Perth & Adelaide. See below for full dates and for further details head to https://fontainesdc.com/pages/live.
Produced by James Ford, 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 singles ‘Marianne’ and ‘Tongue’, and featuring a collaboration with ROSALÍA on ‘Where Is Gone?’, 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.”
Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the UK and Ireland 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.
Pre-order / pre-save Dopamine Chamber here.
Stream / Download ‘Tongue’ here.
Presented by Laneway Festival & Handsome Tours
Tue, 9 Feb 2027
RAC Arena, Perth, WA (Headline Show)
Fri, 12 Feb 2027
Laneway Festival, Sydney, NSW
Sat, 13 Feb 2027
Laneway Festival, Brisbane, QLD
Wed, 17 Feb 2027
AEC Arena, Adelaide, SA (Headline Show)
Fri, 19 Feb 2027
Laneway Festival, Melbourne, VIC
Sun, 21 Feb 2027
Laneway Festival, Auckland, NZ
Tickets and tour details via handsometours.com / Pre-sale access here.
