Fontaines D.C. share new single 'Where Is Gone?' featuring Rosalía

With just four days to go until Fontaines D.C. unleash their eagerly awaited new album, Dopamine Chamber, the Dublin-formed five-piece have shared the third single from the project: 'Where Is Gone?', featuring Spanish star Rosalía as their first ever guest vocalist.

The track was previously made available as a limited edition white label 7" at exclusive album listening parties last week.

Speaking to Hot Press recently, as part of Fontaines D.C.'s cover story interview, guitarist Conor Curley praised Rosalía's "incredible" voice.

“It blew my mind that she was up for jumping on that track," he continued. "I always think the whole duet thing gives such a beautiful narrative to songs anyway. I’m really happy with how that turned out.”

At the time of the new album’s announcement, vocalist Grian Chatten noted that, if 2024's Romance was “60 per cent human and 40 per cent corrupted by automation, and a loss of feeling,” then Dopamine Chamber “feels more like 60 per cent corrupted – the mask is wearing the face a little more.”

“A lot of the world of Fontaines now exists on this online thing,” Curley said of the inspiration behind those themes, as part of his Hot Press interview. “It’s such a negative thing to interact with – to keep up with what your ‘online thing’ is doing as a band.

“People want to be in the position where they can be like, ‘Oh, I never use my phone from this time to this time’, or whatever,” he added. “It’s like we have these accepted addictions.”

To Curley, the ‘dopamine chamber’ represents “a forced addiction, or a forced sort of place.”

“It’s getting into the realm of taking away free will – but through spikes in pleasure,” he resumed. “It’s a dark, twisted kind of place.”

'Where Is Gone?' follows the previously released Dopamine Chamber singles 'Marianne' and 'Tongue'. Last month, 'Marianne' became Fontaines' first single to spend multiple weeks in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. Before ‘Marianne’, which peaked at No.19, the five-piece’s highest-ranking single on the UK chart was last year’s ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’, which reached No.39.

Dopamine Chamber is out October 16, via XL Recordings. Fontaines D.C. play Slane Castle, Co. Meath on June 26 & 27, 2027.

Listen to the new single below:

Read the full Fontaines D.C. interview in the current issue of Hot Press: