{"id":643437,"date":"2026-08-18T11:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643437\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:19:15","slug":"fontaines-d-c-announce-details-of-new-album-dopamine-chamber-with-epic-single-marianne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643437\/","title":{"rendered":"Fontaines D.C. announce details of new album ‘Dopamine Chamber’ with epic single ‘Marianne’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fontaines D.C.<\/a> have finally released the epic and cinematic single \u2018Marianne\u2019<\/a> to announce new album \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019. Listen and find all the details below.<\/p>\n

The Irish indie heroes have been teasing their return for some weeks now, playing \u2018Marianne\u2019 alongside another new song, \u2018Six Shot Morning\u2019<\/a>, at their summer comeback shows before confirming that the single and new album were imminent. Later, they revealed that their fifth studio record would be called \u2018Dopamine Chamber<\/a>\u2018 in a cryptic online teaser.<\/p>\n

Now, the band have shared the single in full to announce that the James Ford<\/a>-produced \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019 will arrive on October 16 via XL Recordings. Fans can pre-order the album here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cinematic synth-noir \u2018Marianne\u2019 was inspired in part by the 2024 thriller series Ripley, and draws on feelings of escapism and surrender in the face of oblivion and catastrophe as frontman Grian Chatten<\/a> offers: \u201cThis year, you should come and stay here, you can follow my lead, I can help you disappear\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In a five-star review of the single<\/a>, NME wrote that \u2018Marianne\u2019 \u201ccomes from a destination of tension piercing a surreal dream, a dark lullaby where the elegiac synth majesty of Depeche Mode<\/a> meets a widescreen David Lynch scene of lush strings. The sense of place is well-earned, and the longing is ultra real. While \u2018Starburster\u2019<\/a>\u00a0was a sharp shock and intake of breath, \u2018Marianne\u2019 is an opening scene set in opulent colour and dizzying sound.\u201d Check out our review in full here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The follow-up to 2024\u2019s acclaimed and Mercury<\/a>-nominated \u2018Romance\u2019<\/a> follows the band\u2019s recent contributions to the Peaky Blinders: Immortal Man\u00a0soundtrack<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0War Child \u2018Help(2)\u2019 album<\/a>. \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019 moves deeper into \u201cdarker and more synthetic sounds\u201d, and searches for pleasure amid peril \u201cin a world tipping towards collapse\u201d from threats in digital and artificial worlds, as the band shared in an official statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album itself is a dopamine chamber,\u201d said Chatten. \u201cYou step inside and we test these different mind or mood-altering pieces of music on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FontainesFontaines D.C., 2026. Credit: Elizaveta Porodina<\/p>\n

The frontman, who spent time visiting Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration, continued: \u201cI think \u2018Romance\u2019 was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling. This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted \u2013 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chatten added: \u201cThere\u2019s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leaning into the themes of the record, bassist Conor \u2018Deego\u2019 Deegan shared: \u201cOur albums have always questioned a sense of place. 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?\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FontainesFontaines D.C. announce new album \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019. Credit: Press<\/p>\n

Fontaines D.C. will continue their summer European headline tour with dates including stops topping the bill at both Reading & Leeds<\/a> and their homecoming at Electric Picnic<\/a> before a short run of US dates. A further headline tour to support \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019 in 2026 into 2027 is expected to be announced in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n

Check out their upcoming dates so far below and visit here for tickets<\/a> and information.<\/p>\n

AUGUST<\/strong>
18 \u2013 Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland\u00a0<\/strong>
20 \u2013 FM4 Frequency, Sankt Polten, Austria<\/strong>
28 \u2013 Reading Festival, UK\u00a0<\/strong>
29 \u2013 Leeds Festival, UK\u00a0<\/strong>
30 \u2013 Electric Picnic, Ireland\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SEPTEMBER<\/strong>
18 \u2013 Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA\u00a0<\/strong>
20 \u2013 Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA\u00a0<\/strong>
27 \u2013 Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In January, guitarist Carlos O\u2019Connell told NME about progress on new Fontaines D.C. material, <\/a>when he also told us whether any of the visual elements of the \u2018Romance\u2019 tour could remain for Fontaines\u2019 2026 dates. \u201cI think \u2018Romance\u2019 was so intense in every [way]\u2026 the visual, the production, the setlist\u2026 It wasn\u2019t just about the music,\u201d he told us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s almost a bit of the identity of the band now, but I guess that\u2019s the decision to make. Does that become the identity of the band, or actually, it\u2019s just a phase and you reinvent it? I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Connell continued: \u201cI personally like the idea of revisiting some old stuff at Reading & Leeds, making the setlist maybe a bit more \u2018Dogrel\u2019<\/a>-heavy. I\u2019m excited about that. I\u2019ve been listening to music like that much more. This morning I was listening to\u00a0Sonic Youth<\/a>. I want to go [in] that direction, but we\u2019ll see, because anything could happen now \u2013 literally anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

August began with Fontaines D.C. playing their first performance since the recent unexpected passing of their beloved manager, Irish music scene legend and \u201csixth member\u201d Trevor Dietz<\/a>, delivering the final ever BBC live session at Maida Vale<\/a> for 6 Music.<\/p>\n

This month also saw author, musician and journalist John Robb share an exclusive excerpt from his memoirs with\u00a0NME<\/a>, in which he discussed being one of the first to discover Fontaines D.C. as well as discussing unheard material he has from the band in his vault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fontaines D.C. have finally released the epic and cinematic single \u2018Marianne\u2019 to announce new album \u2018Dopamine Chamber\u2019. Listen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,6082,17],"class_list":["post-643437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-indie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117116245149223842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}