Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber - Standard Vinyl Record

Dopamine Chamber is the fifth studio album from Fontaines D.C., the Dublin five-piece whose 2024 album Romance made them one of the biggest guitar bands in the world. That record debuted at No. 2 in the UK, earned two GRAMMY nominations and won International Group of the Year at the 2025 BRIT Awards.

For the follow-up the band reunited with producer James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Blur), recording most of the music at Decoy Studios in Suffolk while Grian Chatten cut his vocals with Ford in a makeshift mattress-and-cushion booth in Palermo, Sicily. Chatten describes the album as a room the listener steps into, a place to test "different mind or mood-altering pieces of music." The result moves further from the band's post-punk roots toward something colder and more synthetic, with strings threaded through Marianne, Tongue, Where Is Gone? and One Man.

This is the standard edition on black vinyl via XL Recordings, the everyday-listening copy of a record built to be heard start to finish. A strong place to begin if Romance is already on your shelf.

Side A
1. Six Shot Morning
2. Marianne
3. Mimesis
4. Happy For You
5. Demolition
6. Tongue

Side B
1. One Man
2. Where Is Gone?
3. You Miss Me
4. Japan
5. Intimate