Fontaines D.C. announce new album ‘Dopamine Chamber,’ share ‘Marianne,’ sang with Kurt Vile

Fontaines D.C. have announced their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, due October 16 via XL Recordings. They reunited with producer James Ford, who also produced its 2024 predecessor, the Grammy-nominated Romance, which we called their best album yet in Bill's review on release day, and which we went on to name the 6th best album of that year. They made the album between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Grian Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions. He also spent time in Venice, Vienna and Sicily looking for lyrical inspiration. Dopamine Chamber is available on LP, deluxe LP, CD, cassette and digital, and you can preorder it from the BrooklynVegan shop. The announcement follows Fontaines D.C.’s recent return to the stage for their first shows in nearly a year. They played a BBC session at Maida Vale on July 31 before returning to regular live shows in Spain earlier this month, where they began debuting new material, including "Marianne." They’ve now shared "Marianne" as the album’s lead single. The song was partly inspired by the 2024 series Ripley, and deals with escapism and hedonism. For Dopamine Chamber, Fontaines D.C. brou...