THUMPER

Dublin psych-pop powerhouse THUMPER return with blistering new riff fuelled single 'The Drip' on Fri 23rd May. The track is the first of a series of releases across 2025 leading to the release of their sophomore album which follows debut Choice Music Prize nominated Delusions of Grandeur which was an epic introduction to the band's psych-drenched rumble which juxtaposes walls of distortion with saccharine melody and unabashed hooks.

'The Drip is a song about tour burnout and relationship strain. The song was written almost a line at a time, small lyrics jotted down at different moments on tour, in different cities, different head spaces. The title refers to that slow accumulation, drip torture was on my mind, but also an IV drip - something that keeps you alive, hooked to your veins. In this case my deep love for making music, and the people I make it with.

The song has no chorus - no release. But it’s joyous and builds with momentum with each passing section, even as the lyrics seem to become more abstract. This conflict between love for the thing, and that thing destroying you - that’s The Drip. “Poke to find a vein, flick the bag”

The song was recorded with producer Rian Trench in rural Donegal, in a cottage that we converted into a studio. We built a control room in the sitting room, and ran cables into the various bedrooms for guitar amps, even using Alan’s van to house the bass amp outside (as the volume inside the house was making the fillings in our teeth come loose). The double drums were then recorded in Attica Studio in Donegal owned by Tommy McLaughlin ( Soak, Villagers, Ailbhe Reddy). There was no signal, no wifi, no distractions - just friends making music together. We were listening to a lot of DIIV and Wednesday at the time, and we were lucky enough to rope in Alex Ferrar (engineer/producer of Wednesday,MJ Lendermann, Angel Olsen, etc) on mixing duties.'

Since 2021, Dublin noise-pop sextet THUMPER have gone from playing small hometown shows to touring Ireland, UK and Europe and extensively.

THUMPER have become regular features at Irish festivals, appearing regularly at the likes of Electric Picnic, All Together Now, Indiependence, Other Voices, etc.

The band feel right at home on festival stages around the continent too, having made appearances at big name European festivals such as Mad Cool (Madrid), Reading & Leeds (UK), Iceland Airwaves (IS), Haldern Pop (DE), Rock For People (CZ), Eurosonic (NL), Reeperbahn (DE), United Artists Prague (CZ), and many more.

In 2023, their debut album Delusions of Grandeur received extensive press support and landed them a nomination for 'Irish Album of the Year' at the RTÉ Choice Music Prize alongside Fontaines DC, Just Mustard, CMAT & Dermot Kennedy. THUMPER received UK and international airplay across BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Radio X, KEXP, Kink, Kerrang! as well as Irish stations such as RTÉ Radio 1, 2FM, Today FM, Beat102103, and many more. They have also made noteworthy TV performances on RTÉ’s Tommy Tiernan Show and Other Voices and secured numerous Spotify editorial playlist placements and cover features.