Fontaines D.C have shared their new single, ‘Tongue’.

The second song to be lifted from the band’s forthcoming fifth studio album, ‘’, out October 16th via XL Recordings, the song is accompanied by a video directed by and filmed by Fontaines D.C. in New York City.

Following the success of the rousing first single ’, ‘Tongue’ showcases another side of the album’s more expansive sound.

“We continued where ‘Romance’ left off, leaving the live-band elements until they were really needed,” says Conor Curley of the song’s recording process.

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 voice beamed in like a tranmission.

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.

The new collection is a follow-up to 2024’s UK platinum-certified ‘’, the sound of a band moving away from the guitar language of their early records and into their most seductive music yet. In a world tipping towards collapse, it asks how pleasure mutates amid peril—and what our pursuit of it reveals about us.

“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.” 

Tune in now.