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Fontaines D.C.’s fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, follows 2024’s Romance, the album that took the Dublin five-piece from critical favorites to one of the biggest bands in the world. Announced with lead single “Marianne” and its accompanying Dave Meyers-directed video, Dopamine Chamber 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. It’s the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic. Dopamine Chamber takes its title from the idea of a record as a room the listener steps into.

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

Released: 10/16/26