Fontaines D.C. are back following their landmark album Romance.

Over the past couple of years, since the release of Romance, Fontaines have been ticking a lot of boxes of a band finally getting their flowers – headlining major festivals, selling hundreds of thousands of tickets to their own shows, commercial success, and more have all come off the back of their acclaimed fourth album.

Now, having seemingly turned it around pretty rapidly, they return with the first single from their fifth album Dopamine Chamber in the form of ‘Marianne’, a track that expands on the slowed-down, heavy-hitting energy of tracks like ‘Sundowner’ and ‘Starburster’. And look, we all know these lads don’t mind building a song around a woman’s name…

The clip, which was directed by Dave Myers and Cam Erikson, follows frontman Grian Chatten through a psychedelic world of excess and obsession, with colourful bursts and washed-out opulence which was in part inspired by the 2024 thriller series Ripley (highly recommend if you haven’t watched yet BTW).

According to the band, Dopamine Chamber is a reference to the digital world we live in where our phones can simultaneously present the worst aspects of humanity alongside memes in a steady stream for us to swallow up. Where Romance was tinged with hope, the new album is overcome by doom:

“I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling, this one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more,” Chatten says. “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.”

Not gonna lie, we’re pretty bloody keen for this one to drop on October 16th – pre-order / pre-save here!