Critics react to Fontaines DC’s Dopamine Chamber: ‘Astonishing’

• Fontaines DC’s upcoming album, Dopamine Chamber, has been met with overwhelmingly positive reviews ahead of its release on Friday, 16 October.
• The album follows the Irish rock bond’s 2024 release Romance, alongside earlier LPs Skinty Fia (2022), A Hero’s Death (2020) and Dogrel (2019).
• Writing for The Independent, Music Editor Roisin O'Connor awarded the album five stars, rounding-off her review with: “It’s impossible to be indifferent about an album as astonishing as this.”
• Meanwhile, Laura Snapes thought similarly of the band’s new release in her five-star review for The Guardian, writing: “This is a beguiling, endlessly inventive and frequently astonishing fifth LP from a group at increasing ease with being the best band of their generation.”
• NME have sung Dopamine Chamber’s praises, with Andrew Trendell asserting: “The biggest Irish band since U2 have now also secured themselves as the definitive band of this decade on ‘Dopamine Chamber’ – an extraordinary record for extraordinary times.”

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Fontaines DC review, Dopamine Chamber – A masterpiece from the greatest band of their generation