| Release Date: | 101626 |
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October 16th, 2026
Limited Edition Blue Vinyl
Fontaines D.C. present their fifth studio album, "Dopamine Chamber", via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it is the follow-up to 2024's UK platinum-certified "Romance" - and 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" 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. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse, and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes, and celebrity culture. Having spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves, "Dopamine Chamber" is their most radical turn yet.
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