Fontaines D.C. bring Rosalía onto Where Is Gone?
It is the first guest feature on a Fontaines D.C. studio album, and the third taster from Dopamine Chamber before the XL set lands on Friday.
Fontaines D.C. released 'Where Is Gone?' featuring Rosalía on 12 October 2026. The track is the band's first guest feature on a studio album and the third single drawn from their fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, which is due on 16 October 2026 via XL Recordings.
The song had already been heard in a limited form. A white-label 7" of the cut was made available at album listening parties in the days before the full release, putting the collaboration in a handful of shops for one night only. Its wider outing now lands with the album only days away and with the band already deep into the run-up to the record.
A first guest on a studio set
'Where Is Gone?' follows 'Marianne' and 'Tongue' as the advance singles from Dopamine Chamber. 'Marianne' became the band's first single to spend multiple weeks in the UK Top 40, a step that marked a clear shift in how their records have been landing with a wider audience. The Rosalía cut extends that momentum into new territory: a featured vocal on a Fontaines D.C. studio album, something the Dublin five-piece had not done before.
Guitarist Conor Curley said he was blown away that Rosalía agreed to feature and praised her 'incredible' voice. Guitarist Carlos O'Connell said he has admired Rosalía since her 2017 debut Los Ángeles and sees parallels in the way both acts keep national musical traditions alive inside contemporary writing. Those comments frame the collaboration less as a one-off cameo and more as a meeting of two writers who treat inheritance as live material rather than costume.
Dopamine Chamber was produced by James Ford. It follows 2024's Romance and arrives as the band's fifth full-length, two years on from a record that already pushed their sound beyond the taut post-punk of the early run. The new set is the latest station on a path that began with a run of early singles and a reputation built night by night on stage.
From Dogrel to the fifth album
Fontaines D.C. met as a quintet in Dublin, shaped by the counter-culture of their hometown and intent on concise, immediately authentic indie-punk. Early releases — 'Hurricane Laughter' and 'Winter in the Sun', 'Liberty Belle', 'Chequeless Reckless' paired with 'Boys in the Better Land', then 'Too Real' — established the voice before the 2019 debut album Dogrel. A Hero's Death followed in 2020, Skinty Fia in 2022, and Romance in 2024, with further singles and sessions filling the gaps between the long-players. Along the way the band supported acts including Hinds, The Horrors, Girl Band, Franz Ferdinand and The Lemon Twigs, and took festival slots at Electric Picnic, Hard Working Class Heroes and Other Voices, earning a name for brooding, trenchant live sets.
That arc matters for how 'Where Is Gone?' reads. A first studio guest feature is not a small adjustment for a band whose records have, until now, kept the circle tight. Placing Rosalía on a key cut from Dopamine Chamber signals a willingness to open the writing without abandoning the line of work that runs from Dogrel through Romance. The album title, the producer choice and the sequence of singles already suggested a colder, more expansive frame; the collaboration makes that frame audible before the full set arrives.
What comes next
The band play a charity show at London's Roundhouse on 15 October 2026, the night before Dopamine Chamber is released. Beyond that, they are booked to headline Slane Castle on 26 and 27 June 2027 — dates that place the new album on the scale of Irish outdoor stages rather than the club rooms of the early years.
For now the immediate fact is the single. 'Where Is Gone?' is out, Rosalía is on it, and Dopamine Chamber follows on XL Recordings on 16 October. The white-label 7" gave a first listen to those who made the parties; the full release puts the collaboration in front of everyone else ahead of the album. How the rest of the record sits beside that cut will be clear at the end of the week.
NOVEMBER 2026
20 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
21 – Manchester, AO Arena
22 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
24 – Leeds, Leeds First Direct Bank Arena
25 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
27 – London, The O2
JUNE 2027
26 – Co. Meath, Slane Castle
27 – Co. Meath, Slane Castle
29 – Cardiff, Blackweir Fields
JULY 2027
1 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, St James Park
3 – Manchester, Heaton Park
4 – Manchester, Heaton Park
6 – Glasgow, Glasgow Green
9 – London, London Stadium
The song had already been heard in a limited form. A white-label 7" of the cut was made available at album listening parties in the days before the full release, putting the collaboration in a handful of shops for one night only. Its wider outing now lands with the album only days away and with the band already deep into the run-up to the record.
A first guest on a studio set
'Where Is Gone?' follows 'Marianne' and 'Tongue' as the advance singles from Dopamine Chamber. 'Marianne' became the band's first single to spend multiple weeks in the UK Top 40, a step that marked a clear shift in how their records have been landing with a wider audience. The Rosalía cut extends that momentum into new territory: a featured vocal on a Fontaines D.C. studio album, something the Dublin five-piece had not done before.
Guitarist Conor Curley said he was blown away that Rosalía agreed to feature and praised her 'incredible' voice. Guitarist Carlos O'Connell said he has admired Rosalía since her 2017 debut Los Ángeles and sees parallels in the way both acts keep national musical traditions alive inside contemporary writing. Those comments frame the collaboration less as a one-off cameo and more as a meeting of two writers who treat inheritance as live material rather than costume.
Dopamine Chamber was produced by James Ford. It follows 2024's Romance and arrives as the band's fifth full-length, two years on from a record that already pushed their sound beyond the taut post-punk of the early run. The new set is the latest station on a path that began with a run of early singles and a reputation built night by night on stage.
From Dogrel to the fifth album
Fontaines D.C. met as a quintet in Dublin, shaped by the counter-culture of their hometown and intent on concise, immediately authentic indie-punk. Early releases — 'Hurricane Laughter' and 'Winter in the Sun', 'Liberty Belle', 'Chequeless Reckless' paired with 'Boys in the Better Land', then 'Too Real' — established the voice before the 2019 debut album Dogrel. A Hero's Death followed in 2020, Skinty Fia in 2022, and Romance in 2024, with further singles and sessions filling the gaps between the long-players. Along the way the band supported acts including Hinds, The Horrors, Girl Band, Franz Ferdinand and The Lemon Twigs, and took festival slots at Electric Picnic, Hard Working Class Heroes and Other Voices, earning a name for brooding, trenchant live sets.
That arc matters for how 'Where Is Gone?' reads. A first studio guest feature is not a small adjustment for a band whose records have, until now, kept the circle tight. Placing Rosalía on a key cut from Dopamine Chamber signals a willingness to open the writing without abandoning the line of work that runs from Dogrel through Romance. The album title, the producer choice and the sequence of singles already suggested a colder, more expansive frame; the collaboration makes that frame audible before the full set arrives.
What comes next
The band play a charity show at London's Roundhouse on 15 October 2026, the night before Dopamine Chamber is released. Beyond that, they are booked to headline Slane Castle on 26 and 27 June 2027 — dates that place the new album on the scale of Irish outdoor stages rather than the club rooms of the early years.
For now the immediate fact is the single. 'Where Is Gone?' is out, Rosalía is on it, and Dopamine Chamber follows on XL Recordings on 16 October. The white-label 7" gave a first listen to those who made the parties; the full release puts the collaboration in front of everyone else ahead of the album. How the rest of the record sits beside that cut will be clear at the end of the week.
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Tour datesNOVEMBER 2026
20 – Liverpool, M&S Bank Arena
21 – Manchester, AO Arena
22 – Glasgow, OVO Hydro
24 – Leeds, Leeds First Direct Bank Arena
25 – Birmingham, Utilita Arena
27 – London, The O2
JUNE 2027
26 – Co. Meath, Slane Castle
27 – Co. Meath, Slane Castle
29 – Cardiff, Blackweir Fields
JULY 2027
1 – Newcastle Upon Tyne, St James Park
3 – Manchester, Heaton Park
4 – Manchester, Heaton Park
6 – Glasgow, Glasgow Green
9 – London, London Stadium