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Fontaines D.C. announce their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released on 16th October via XL Recordings. Produced by James Ford, it is 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. It arrives today alongside lead single “Marianne” and its accompanying video, directed by Dave Meyers.

Dopamine Chamber 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.”

Where Romance held its tension in balance, this record tips it. “I think Romance was maybe 60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” says Chatten, who spent time among the faded grandeur of Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration. “This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted — the mask is wearing the face a little more.” He resisted any pull towards easy optimism: “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.”

“Our albums have always questioned a sense of place,” says bassist Conor Deegan. “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?” Into the self, perhaps – or hedonism, fantasy, cosmetic perfection, eternal youth or the endless refresh of a screen.

Fontaines D.C. have spent five albums refusing to repeat themselves – from Dogrel (2019) through A Hero’s Death (2020), the No. 1 Skinty Fia (2022) and the anarchic, kaleidoscopic Romance (2024). Dopamine Chamber is their most radical turn yet: cold synthesiser tones, marching drums, samples and triggers, several songs with no guitars at all, and the swooning strings of 1960s Italian pop pulled into something synthetic. For guitarist Conor Curley, the aim was to break from the band’s own reference points: “I was trying to find stuff that pointed into the future.” It was made with James 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.

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PHOEBE BRIDGERS is a singer-songwriter from Pasadena, CA. Beloved in equal measure for her deceptively subtle voice and her meticulous, incisive lyrics, her solo records Stranger in the Alps (2017) and Punisher (2020) have been accompanied by a number of collaborations, including the supergroup boygenius, with whom Bridgers won three Grammys for 2023’s the record. Her songs are hallmarked by a kind of intimacy that’s hard-found in contemporary music, and scale between the macro and the micro with an ease that’s matched only by her towering, prodigious way with words.

Release Date: 14-08-2026

Genre: Alternative

Frozen Charlotte - the 7th studio album from Jack White shows the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer at his best; backed by an incredible band (Patrick Keeler on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, Bobby Emmett on keys) whose collective hand is scorching hot after coming off a tour of universally-acclaimed performances. Instead of resting on a “job well done”, they went straight to work in the studio and laid down what became Frozen Charlotte.

Recorded in White's Third Man Studio in Nashville, this album shows Jack carrying on the same raucous, raw, and frenetic energy from his lauded 2024 album, No Name. 13 tracks of distinct feel and tone, Frozen Charlotte is an intense rock and roll punch with never far behind blues underpinnings... all of which fits right at home with long time fans while leaving an inviting open door to newcomers alike.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs

2. Derecho Demonico

3. There's Nobody There

4. Raising The Grain

5. You’ll Never Fix Me Nobody Knows

Side B

1. Dollar Bill

2. I Can’t Believe What I’m Hearing

3. Thick As Thieves

4. All Alone Again

5. She's In A Frenzy

6. Making Contact

7. Neighbors Blues

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Djo - The Crux Deluxe is a 12-track companion album by Joe Keery, exploring the emotional, darker, and more introspective side of the titular "Crux" hotel storyline. Recorded alongside the standard album at Electric Lady Studios, the record is a standalone expansion rather than just a collection of B-sides

10 Til' Midnight is the twenty-second studio album by Snoop Dogg, released on April 10, 2026, through Death Row Records and gamma. The 14-track, 35-minute project bridges his classic G-Funk roots with a modern West Coast sound, featuring production from Pharrell Williams, Swizz Beatz, and Erick Sermon

Brat is the critically acclaimed sixth studio album by British pop star Charli XCX. Released on June 7, 2024, it defined a cultural moment with its raw, club-ready electronic sound and vulnerable, gossipy lyricism.

British pop provocateur Charli XCX unveils her eagerly awaited new full-length album 'Wuthering Heights', arriving on February 13 2026 via Atlantic Records. The album emerges from Charli’s collaboration with filmmaker Emerald Fennell on her re-imagining of the classic novel by Emily Brontë — a world steeped in gothic landscapes and tortured longing. The highly anticipated movie will star Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi.

Crafted primarily with British producer Finn Keane, the twelve-track journey channels a sonic ethos that is both elegant and brutal. The brooding opener and lead single “House” - featuring John Cale of The Velvet Underground - shows entirely new aspects of Charli XCX's artistry. An uncompromising and visionary track that encompasses classical music, darkwave and visceral post-industrial sounds. In contrast the follow-up single "Chains of Love" is an impassioned, evocative synth-pop ballad.

Never Enough is the fourth studio album by American rock band Turnstile, released via Roadrunner Records. It follows their critically acclaimed 2021 release, Glow On, and serves as the band's first record featuring guitarist Meg Mills following the 2022 departure of founding member Brady Ebert

Tracklisting

1. NEVER ENOUGH
2. SOLE
3. I CARE
4. DREAMING
5. LIGHT DESIGN
6. DULL
7. SUNSHOWER
8. LOOK OUT FOR ME
9. CEILING
10. SEEIN' STARS
11. BIRDS
12. SLOWDIVE
13. TIME IS HAPPENING
14. MAGIC MAN