After two weeks of teasing new material, Fontaines D.C. have officially revealed their upcoming album Dopamine Chamber, out October 16 via XL Recordings. With James Ford returning as producer, the band's fifth record will be the follow-up to 2024's Romance. The single "Marianne" is out everywhere now.

Listen to "Marianne" below:

"In a world tipping towards collapse," the band explain via press release, the new record seeks escapism and pleasure rooted in darker, synth-inspired sounds. As suggested by the first single, they'll be moving away from a more traditional rock guitar set-up, using them only as jangle/new wave for a grainer, synth-produced rhythm section. "The album itself is a dopamine chamber," said front man and lyricist Grian Chatten. "You step inside and we test these different mind or mood-altering pieces of music on you."

Corruption by automation, technology, apathy, and public discord continues to creep into the Dublin songwriter's lyricism, he added, and if Romance sought ways to find hope elsewhere, Dopamine Chamber finds the band on the brink of entering a new, non-humanity. "The mask is wearing the face a little more," continued Chatten. "I felt it would be more powerful to leave the hope out and reflect the ugliness honestly. This one needed to feel more like a catastrophic warning."

Bassist Conor 'Deego' Deegan further explained:

"Our albums have always questioned a sense of place. First Dublin, then being away from Dublin, and then trying to find the romance elsewhere. On this record, the question became: where do you escape to?”

A tracklist has not been officially revealed yet.

Dopamine Chamber is out October 16 via XL Recordings. Pre-order here.