Watch Fontaines D.C.’s “Tongue” Music Video

Fontaines D.C. (Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll) today released the new single “Tongue,” the second song from the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, released October 16th via XL Recordings. The song is accompanied by a video directed by John Angus Stewart, shot in New York City.

Following the success of the opulent, rousing first single “Marianne,” “Tongue” showcases another side of Dopamine Chamber’s expansive sound.

Of the song’s recording process, Conor Curley states:

“We continued where Romance left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed.”

Conor Deegan created the slouchy bass by manipulating tape speed – a technique often used by Prince – evoking the loose, pitched character of sampled hip-hop bass. Carlos O’Connell pushed Chatten’s vocal through a sampler, distorting its pitch until it resembles a malicious extraterrestrial voice. Guitars screech, piano bellows and strings and orchestration gradually break apart the track’s stoic façade. The result is one of Dopamine Chamber’s most visceral songs: physical, garbled and alive, even as its human components are processed into unfamiliar shapes.

Dopamine Chamber Track Listing:

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

Fontaines D.C. ‘Dopamine Chamber’ album artwork