FONTAINES D.C. to Play Intimate Shows in Brooklyn and Los Angeles
New album DOPAMINE CHAMBER, produced by James Ford, will follow the platinum-certified ROMANCE via XL Recordings.
Fontaines D.C. have announced two intimate US headline shows in September, following the announcement of their fifth studio album Dopamine Chamber earlier this week. The shows will take place at Kings Theatre, Brooklyn (September 21st) and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles (September 25th).
Fans can sign up for pre-sale tickets at https://laylo.com/fontainesdc/m/nyla26. Pre-sale sign-up is open until 6pm ET Monday, August 24th, with pre-sale tickets available from 10am local time on Tuesday, August 25th. General on-sale starts at 10am local time on Friday, August 28th.
These shows will follow a run of European shows throughout August, including UK and Ireland headline appearances at the Reading & Leeds and Electric Picnic festivals. Previously, the band played sold out shows around the world, including a 45,000 sell out at London's Finsbury Park in July 2025.
Fontaines D.C.'s fifth album Dopamine Chamber will be released on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it's the follow-up to 2024's UK platinum-certified Romance – and the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic.
The album is preceded by lead single 'Marianne' and its Dave Meyers (Kendrick Lamar's 'HUMBLE.' and Travis Scott's 'SICKO MODE')-directed video, and arrives like a constellation behind undulating sighs of smog: potent balladry, anthemic melodies glinting through the murk.
In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us. Across the album, Fontaines D.C. – Grian Chatten, Carlos O'Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll – move between gratification and dread until the two meld together, reflecting the overwhelm of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture.
'The album itself is a dopamine chamber,' says Chatten. 'You step inside and we test these different mind- or mood-altering pieces of music on you.'
Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero's Death (2020), the UK and Ireland No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet: It was made with Ford between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.
'There's a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,' says Chatten.
For their fifth album, Fontaines D.C. have built the chamber. What happens to the listener inside it will be the experiment.
Dopamine Chamber is released on October 16th via XL Recordings and available on LP, deluxe LP, CD, cassette and digital.
Fontaines D.C. Live
August 18th - Les Docks, Lausanne, Switzerland
August 20th - FM4 Frequency, Sankt Polten, Austria
August 28th - Reading Festival, UK
August 29th - Leeds Festival, UK
August 30th - Electric Picnic, Ireland
September 18th - Shaky Knees, Atlanta, GA, USA
September 20th - Sea.Hear.Now, Asbury Park, NJ, USA
September 21st - Kings Theatre, Brooklyn, NY, USA (NEW DATE)
September 25th - Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (NEW DATE)
September 27th - Ohana Festival, Dana Point, CA, USA
Photo Credit: Elizaveta Porodina
Photo Credit: Elizaveta Porodina
