Fontaines D.C. announce details of new album ‘Dopamine Chamber’ with epic single ‘Marianne’

Fontaines D.C. have finally released the epic and cinematic single ‘Marianne’ to announce new album ‘Dopamine Chamber’.

Listen and find all the details below.

READ MORE: Fontaines D.C.‘s ‘Marianne’ sets a bold new cinematic scene in their search for escape The Irish indie heroes have been teasing their return for some weeks now, playing ‘Marianne’ alongside another new song, ‘Six Shot Morning’ , 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 ‘Dopamine Chamber ‘ in a cryptic online teaser.

Now, the band have shared the single in full to announce that the James Ford -produced ‘Dopamine Chamber’ will arrive on October 16 via XL Recordings.

Fans can pre-order the album here .

The cinematic synth-noir ‘Marianne’ 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 offers: “ This year, you should come and stay here, you can follow my lead, I can help you disappear…” In a five-star review of the single , NME wrote that ‘Marianne’ “comes from a destination of tension piercing a surreal dream, a dark lullaby where the elegiac synth majesty of Depeche Mode meets a widescreen David Lynch scene of lush strings.

The sense of place is well-earned, and the longing is ultra real.

While ‘Starburster’ was a sharp shock and intake of breath, ‘Marianne’ is an opening scene set in opulent colour and dizzying sound.” Check out our review in full here .

READ MORE: At home with Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten: “Our personality is bigger than the sound that we make” The follow-up to 2024’s acclaimed and Mercury -nominated ‘Romance’ follows the band’s recent contributions to the Peaky Blinders: Immortal Man soundtrack and the War Child ‘Help(2)’ album . ‘Dopamine Chamber’ moves deeper into “darker and more synthetic sounds”, and searches for pleasure amid peril “in a world tipping towards collapse” from threats in digital and artificial worlds, as the band shared in an official statement.

“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” said Chatten.

“You step inside and we test these different mind or mood-altering pieces of music on you.” Fontaines D.C., 2026.

Credit: Elizaveta Porodina The frontman, who spent time visiting Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration, continued: “I think ‘Romance’ 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 – the mask is wearing the face a little more.