Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber—the Dublin band’s fifth studio album—lands on 16 October 2026 via XL Recordings. NME and Official Charts published the full 11-song tracklist in mid-September, headlined by a first-ever studio guest: Rosalía on “Where Is Gone?”. If you are searching release date, track order, or pre-order paths roughly four weeks out, this ADVANCE guide locks the confirmed facts.

Release date and formats

Album: Dopamine Chamber

Date: 16 October 2026

Label: XL Recordings

Context: Follow-up to 2024’s Mercury-nominated Romance

XL’s shop page and Official Charts both date the release; check XL / major retailers for vinyl, CD, and digital pre-order variants as stock listings update.

Full tracklist

Per NME and Official Charts:

1. Six Shot Morning 2. Marianne 3. Mimesis 4. Happy For You 5. Demolition 6. Tongue 7. One Man 8. Where Is Gone? (with Rosalía) 9. You Miss Me 10. Japan 11. Intimate

NME notes lead single “Marianne” plus live debuts of “Six Shot Morning” and “Happy For You”. “Where Is Gone?” is framed as the band’s first studio-album guest vocalist—despite frontman Grian Chatten’s long-public interest in working with Lana Del Rey.

What the band says about the sound

NME quotes Chatten calling the record itself a “dopamine chamber”—music that tests mood-altering pieces on the listener—and describing a shift toward “darker and more synthetic sounds” after Romance. He frames Romance as roughly “60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation,” with this album tipping the other way: “the mask is wearing the face a little more.” Bassist Conor ‘Deego’ Deegan adds that the place-question on this record became “where do you escape to?” Those are attributed NME quotes only—do not invent additional lines.

Tour cue after release

NME reports UK and European arena dates ahead of stadium and outdoor shows in 2027 with Little Simz and Viagra Boys, following a summer that included Reading & Leeds and Electric Picnic headlines. Treat setlists as unconfirmed until promoters publish them.

People also ask: is Rosalía on every Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber track?

No. She appears on one listed collaboration—“Where Is Gone?”—track 8 of 11. The rest are Fontaines D.C. alone in the published tracklist.

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Dual-geo keyword note

English-language searchers in Ireland, the UK, the US, and India share the same primary string—“Fontaines D.C. Dopamine Chamber”—with secondary spikes on “Rosalía Fontaines” and “Where Is Gone?” in the fortnight before street date. Owning the full tracklist early is the CTR advantage.

Why a guest vocalist matters for this cycle

For a band that built its reputation on tightly sealed four-piece intensity, inviting Rosalía onto a studio album is a deliberate widening of the frame. Official Charts stresses that “Where Is Gone?” is the first-ever guest artist credit on a Fontaines D.C. album—not a remix EP cameo. That single fact drives a second search cluster (“Fontaines Rosalía collab”) that often outruns the album title itself in the fortnight before release.

Chatten’s Venice–Vienna–Sicily lyric trips, as reported by NME, also signal a geographic shift after the Dublin-to-elsewhere arc of earlier records. Listeners hunting “Dopamine Chamber meaning” will find the band’s own catastrophic-warning framing more useful than fan speculation—stick to the attributed statement that hope was deliberately left out so the ugliness could read honestly.

Pre-order and chart-watch checklist

Official Charts’ tracklist notice exists partly for UK chart pre-order mechanics: confirm the XL product page matches the 16 October street date, keep an eye on whether “Marianne” remains the sole pre-release single, and treat any sudden deluxe-track rumours as unconfirmed until XL posts them. For dual-geo readers in India and the US, the same English primary keyword still dominates—local storefronts simply inherit XL’s global digital day-and-date.

Sources: NME (17 Sep 2026); Official Charts tracklist notice; XL Recordings shop release page. Track order and attributed quotes follow those materials only.