Dopamine is the fifth studio album by American rock band Third Eye Blind, released on June 16, 2015.

[6] Fredianelli had many of the claims dismissed, but ultimately still won over $400,000 from the band for lost wages in touring in support of Ursa Major.

[10] The release date eventually slipped into 2012,[11] and then later, by late 2012, Jenkins conceded that he was again suffering from writer's block and was struggling to finish lyrics for songs.

[12] In 2012, the band traveled to India to play a four city spanning tour, to "get inspired" for the new album, and to record a music video for a track titled "All the Soul".

[13] The video, which was to capture playing the song live on top of a double decker bus in Mumbai traffic,[13] never surfaced, though work on the album did start increasing the following year in 2013, when Jenkins reported he had written 40 to 50 new songs since the band had begun working on new material.

[17] The slow pace was attributed to writer's block and the band's extensive touring schedule during the same timeframe.

[19] One of Jenkins' efforts to overcome his writer's block was to do a "life swap" with a fellow musician who was living in a small dorm-like apartment in a dangerous part of a city, an environment Jenkins had been in while writing the band's self-titled debut album prior to any of the band's fame in the late 1990s.

[23][25] The song specifically describes a dream where Jenkins attempts to stab someone out of jealousy in a dreamlike state, but the other person is unaffected.

[18] Jenkins announced that a single from the fifth album would be released prior to the tour,[30] with an accompanying music video being created in April 2015.

[33] The song, along with an accompanying music video, was premiered on Tumblr for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and featured a guest appearance from Pierce the Veil frontman Vic Fuentes.

Dopamine isn't his best record, and it might be his worst, but for one of the slyest songwriters from the past two decades of pop, 'worst' can still be pretty damn great.

"[2] Rolling Stone praised the album for melding the band's classic 1990s alternative rock sound with different influences such as The Cure and Arcade Fire.

[40] The Associated Press singled out "All the Souls" as a standout track and concluded that "whichever incarnation of Third Eye Blind you prefer, and for many it's the era of the band's hit 'Semi-Charmed Life', this version is tight and the songwriting is clean and captivating.

"[39] AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that while the departure of long time guitarist Tony Fredianelli "reinforces how Third Eye Blind is very much the Stephan Jenkins show...

When the record gets cooking, chorus melodies can soar and riffs can punch, creating an insistent, surging, miniaturized arena rock -- music where the emotions and sound exist on a grand scale but the intent feels intimate.