Fontaines D.C. will release their new album, Dopamine Chamber, on October 16th via XL Recordings. The Irish band’s full-length was Produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Shame, Pulp), and the follow-up to their 2024 album Romance. The announcement is accompanied by lead single “Marianne.”

Fontaines D.C. features Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll. “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.”

Chatten continues, “I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” who spent time among the faded grandeur of Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more.” He resisted any pull towards easy optimism: “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.”

“Our albums have always questioned a sense of place,” says bassist Conor Deegan. “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? Into the self, perhaps – or hedonism, fantasy, cosmetic perfection, eternal youth or the endless refresh of a screen?”.

Fontaines D.C. have released five albums Dogrel (2019) A Hero’s Death (2020), Skinty Fia (2022) Romance (2024), and Dopamine Chamber, dropping October 16, 2026 via XL Recordings.

Fontaines D.C. 2026 Tour Dates

August 18th – Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
August 20th – FM4 Frequency, Sankt Polten, Austria
August 28th – Reading Festival, UK
August 29th – Leeds Festival, UK
August 30th – Electric Picnic, Ireland
September 18th – Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 20th – Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA
September 27th – Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA

pre-order The Dopamine Chamber HERE