Manage Preferences<\/a><\/p>\nIt is “the sound of a band moving decisively away from the guitar language of their early records into something colder, stranger and more synthetic”, the statement says.<\/p>\n
Dopamine Chamber deals with themes of artificial intelligence, environmental collapse and political violence “all riding the same algorithms as memes, jokes and celebrity culture”.<\/p>\n
“The album itself is a dopamine chamber,” says front man Grian Chatten. “You step inside and we test these different mind or mood-altering pieces of music on you.”<\/p>\n
The Irish band, who consist of Chatten, Carlos O\u2019Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll and who hail from Dublin, Mayo, Monaghan and Spain, play Electric Picnic in Co Laois on 30th August,<\/p>\n
They have released four albums, Dogrel (2019), A Hero\u2019s Death (2020), Skinty Fia (2022), and Romance (2024), and have been nominated for Grammy and Brit awards.<\/p>\n
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\nDopamine Chamber is out on XL Recordings on 16th of October<\/p>\n
“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 in Venice, Vienna and Sicily in search of lyrical inspiration for the new songs.<\/p>\n
“This one feels more like 60 per cent corrupted – the mask is wearing the face a little more.”<\/p>\n
He adds that 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.”<\/p>\n
“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?”<\/p>\n
Dopamine Chamber was created with James Ford, who produced Romance and who has also worked with Arctic Monkeys, Bur and Pulp, between London, the English countryside and Palermo, where Chatten recorded vocals in a makeshift booth built from mattresses and cushions.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s a poignant sense of us being on the brink of some other kind of form of humanity, or non-humanity,” the singer says.<\/p>\n
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