Fontaines D.C. open the chamber with Rosalía
The third preview from Dopamine Chamber is out now, with the full XL album due on Friday and two nights at Slane Castle locked for June 2027.
Fontaines D.C. released 'Where Is Gone?' on 12 October, their first collaboration with another artist and the third track shared from the forthcoming fifth album Dopamine Chamber.
The track follows the earlier singles 'Marianne' and 'Tongue' from the same project. 'Marianne' became the band's first single to spend multiple weeks in the UK Top 40. Coming after 2024's Romance, the new cut marks a shift towards more seductive, less guitar-driven sounds.
Dopamine Chamber is due for release on 16 October 2026 via XL Recordings. With this third preview now public, the full shape of that experiment arrives at the end of the week.
From Dogrel to XL
The group formed in Dublin in 2017. Chatten, Conor Curley, Carlos O'Connell, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll met at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, bound by music and poetry; they published pamphlets together before the band took their name. Their answer to the city's counter-culture was concise indie-punk that travelled quickly. Early releases in 2017 and 2018 — among them 'Hurricane Laughter', 'Liberty Belle', 'Chequeless Reckless' and 'Too Real' — led to the debut album Dogrel on Partisan Records in 2019. A Hero's Death followed in 2020, Skinty Fia in 2022 and Romance in 2024. In 2025 they issued the single 'It's Amazing To Be Young'. Live, they earned a reputation for brooding and trenchant performances across Europe, Ireland and the UK, supporting Hinds, The Horrors, Girl Band, Franz Ferdinand and The Lemon Twigs, and playing Electric Picnic, Hard Working Class Heroes and Other Voices.
Chatten was born on 19 July 1995 in Barrow-in-Furness, England, to an English mother and an Irish father, and moved to Ireland when he was a month old. After a nomadic stretch, the family settled in Skerries, County Dublin, when he was twelve; he later relocated to Dublin city. As frontman and lyricist, his intense delivery drew comparisons to Ian Curtis and Mark E. Smith even as the band's writing moved on. His solo album Chaos For The Fly appeared in 2023. The fifth Fontaines D.C. album on XL and the collaboration with Rosalía extend that path without breaking the original line-up.
Friday's release and the road to Slane
The news in this update is the single's arrival. 'Where Is Gone?' is out; Dopamine Chamber follows on Friday. How thoroughly the shared vocal defines the album will be audible in full on 16 October.
Fontaines D.C. play Slane Castle in County Meath on 26 and 27 June 2027. Those two dates give the new material a landmark Irish stage well into the album campaign, far removed from the clubs and theatres of the Dogrel tour cycle.
For a band once known for short, street-level punk songs, a collaboration with Rosalía released three days before a fifth album is a plain statement of changed ambition. The craft is in the arrangement and the two voices; the test, as the band's own image for the record suggests, is whether the rest of Dopamine Chamber sustains that altered mood. The single is available now. The album lands on 16 October. Slane waits for June.
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 track follows the earlier singles 'Marianne' and 'Tongue' from the same project. 'Marianne' became the band's first single to spend multiple weeks in the UK Top 40. Coming after 2024's Romance, the new cut marks a shift towards more seductive, less guitar-driven sounds.
Dopamine Chamber is due for release on 16 October 2026 via XL Recordings. With this third preview now public, the full shape of that experiment arrives at the end of the week.
From Dogrel to XL
The group formed in Dublin in 2017. Chatten, Conor Curley, Carlos O'Connell, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll met at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, bound by music and poetry; they published pamphlets together before the band took their name. Their answer to the city's counter-culture was concise indie-punk that travelled quickly. Early releases in 2017 and 2018 — among them 'Hurricane Laughter', 'Liberty Belle', 'Chequeless Reckless' and 'Too Real' — led to the debut album Dogrel on Partisan Records in 2019. A Hero's Death followed in 2020, Skinty Fia in 2022 and Romance in 2024. In 2025 they issued the single 'It's Amazing To Be Young'. Live, they earned a reputation for brooding and trenchant performances across Europe, Ireland and the UK, supporting Hinds, The Horrors, Girl Band, Franz Ferdinand and The Lemon Twigs, and playing Electric Picnic, Hard Working Class Heroes and Other Voices.
Chatten was born on 19 July 1995 in Barrow-in-Furness, England, to an English mother and an Irish father, and moved to Ireland when he was a month old. After a nomadic stretch, the family settled in Skerries, County Dublin, when he was twelve; he later relocated to Dublin city. As frontman and lyricist, his intense delivery drew comparisons to Ian Curtis and Mark E. Smith even as the band's writing moved on. His solo album Chaos For The Fly appeared in 2023. The fifth Fontaines D.C. album on XL and the collaboration with Rosalía extend that path without breaking the original line-up.
Friday's release and the road to Slane
The news in this update is the single's arrival. 'Where Is Gone?' is out; Dopamine Chamber follows on Friday. How thoroughly the shared vocal defines the album will be audible in full on 16 October.
Fontaines D.C. play Slane Castle in County Meath on 26 and 27 June 2027. Those two dates give the new material a landmark Irish stage well into the album campaign, far removed from the clubs and theatres of the Dogrel tour cycle.
For a band once known for short, street-level punk songs, a collaboration with Rosalía released three days before a fifth album is a plain statement of changed ambition. The craft is in the arrangement and the two voices; the test, as the band's own image for the record suggests, is whether the rest of Dopamine Chamber sustains that altered mood. The single is available now. The album lands on 16 October. Slane waits for June.
Watch the videoTongue
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