{"product_id":"fontaines-d-c-dopamine-chamber-dopamine-chamber-blue-release-date-16th-october","title":"Fontaines D.C.Dopamine Chamber ( Dopamine Chamber Blue ) Release Date 16th October","description":"\u003cp\u003eFontaines D.C. – Dopamine Chamber (LP) Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it follows 2024's UK platinum-certified Romance with a decisive sonic shift: away from guitar-driven early work into colder, stranger, more synthetic territory. The album arrives as potent balladry and anthemic melodies emerge through undulating synth and murk. Across ten tracks, the Dublin five – Grian Chatten, Carlos O'Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – navigate gratification and dread as one, reflecting artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence filtered through the same algorithms as memes and celebrity culture. Where Romance held tension in balance, Dopamine Chamber tips it. Cold synthesiser tones, marching drums, samples, triggers and swooning 1960s Italian pop strings define the sound. Several tracks abandon guitars entirely. Chatten spent time in Venice, Vienna and Sicily seeking lyrical inspiration, resisting easy optimism: \"I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly.\" Fontaines D.C. have refused to repeat themselves across five albums – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero's Death, the No. 1 Skinty Fia and the kaleidoscopic Romance. Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet. Lead single \"Marianne\" and its Dave Meyers-directed video arrive today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ad-Astra Records Herefordshire","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64302981742969,"sku":null,"price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/2117\/9413\/files\/2_5540b943-d227-4b50-b24f-40e57ccce546.avif?v=1787131950","url":"https:\/\/ad-astra-records.com\/products\/fontaines-d-c-dopamine-chamber-dopamine-chamber-blue-release-date-16th-october","provider":"Ad-Astra Records Herefordshire","version":"1.0","type":"link"}