Listen to Fontaines D.C.’s eerie and twisted new single ‘Tongue’

Fontaines D.C. have shared another new single, ‘Tongue’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Fontaines D.C. live at Reading 2026 review: an emotional coronation for the modern indie kings The track will appear on the Dublin band’s fifth studio album, ‘Dopamine Chamber’, released on October 16 via XL Recordings. It follows on from lead single ‘Marianne’, which arrived last month. Guitarist Carlos O’Connell pushed frontman Grian Chatten’s vocal through a sampler to distort the pitch on ‘Tongue’, resembling “a malicious extraterrestrial voice” over screeching guitars, eerie piano and strings. Fontaines aimed to process and twist the human elements of the single into strange and disorienting shapes. “Deep inside your brain/ I feel the same,” Chatten sings. “Deeper as we go/ I think you know…” Explaining the recording process of the menacing and experimental tune, guitarist Conor Curley said: “We continued where ‘Romance’ left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed.” Inspired by a studio technique often used by Prince, bassist Conor ‘Deego’ Deegan III provided the slouchy bassline by manipulating tape speed. As a result, his part evokes the loose, pitched ...