New duo DOPAMINE FIX release debut single 'Welcome To The Sharktank'
- Richard Blowes
- Sep 15, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 17, 2025
With a nod to the Dadaists, DOPAMINE FIX release their debut single Welcome To The Sharktank and update the sound of manifesto driven electronic/post punk
Track: Welcome To The Sharktank
Band: DOPAMINE FIX
Released: September 15 2025
If you are as old as I am, you may a remember a time when bands had manifestos and their music reflected and indeed attempted to reinforce their world views - think Manic Street Preachers, Scritti Politti or any band managed by Tony Wilson (a fan of the Situationists if not necessarily sticking to their ideology).
The tricky thing about a manifesto (Blowtorch Records has one too) is it can be a hostage to fortune. New duo DOPAMINE FIX - Aidan MacNamara (vox, guitars) and Eoin Devereux (synths) - pledge that "with a nod to the Dadaists, we create post punk, experimental and electronica which aims to unnerve, to disturb and to question.”
This propulsive, compulsive song deals in sly hooks and does indeed urge you on, only to falter and slow at the finish as the singer asks "what's my motivation?" Self doubt is the enemy of executive function; self sabotage as an act of anti art. This is right up our street.
Dadaism was an anti-art movement which mocked prevailing cultures and celebrated the absurd. In other words, think almost anything released by The Fall. On the evidence of their excellent debut single Welcome To The Sharktank there has been no sellout so far.
The melodic synth/drum machine/guitar combination brings titans such as New Order to mind along with the pop smarts of Pet Shop Boys or Blancmange (who had their own absurdist track Living On The Ceiling). It also brings more recent acts such as Boy Harsher or Black Doldrums to mind. This propulsive, compulsive song deals in sly hooks and does indeed urge you on, only to falter and slow at the finish as the singer asks "what's my motivation?" Self doubt is the enemy of executive function; self sabotage as an act of anti art. This is right up our street.
DOPAMINE FIX ask you to "step inside a world where the water’s cold, the predators circle, and your breath runs short. Welcome To The Sharktank serves as a record of how dysfunctional and broken our world is. This single is a soundtrack for the alienated and the awake — those treading water in a dystopia they never asked to enter. Equal parts urgency and melancholy, it pulls you under and dares you to swim."
Recorded between Berlin, Coventry and Limerick and produced and engineered by Mick Heffernan (Gavin Friday, Howie B and Richard Russell), Welcome To The Sharktank invites listeners to confront the frailty and fragility of their own existence. It is available on all streaming platforms and on a very limited edition 7" single.
It is not a song; it is a mirror with teeth.
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