THUMPER – The Drip (2025)
With a line-up of four guitarists and two drummers, THUMPER’s brazen, bombastic, loud enough for your ears to ring music sets the group apart from others in the Dublin music scene. Since 2021, the Irish noise-pop sextet have enchanted audiences with their confident hometown performances to thundering roar at festivals across Europe (Reeperbahn, Mad Cool, Rock For People, Reading and Leeds). Moreover, along with their critically acclaimed 2022 debut album, Delusions of Grandeur, THUMPER have featured on notable international publications, global radio stations, and even appeared on RTE’s The Tommy Tiernan Show.
Following their psychedelic noise-pop twist on Natasha Beddingfield’s ‘Unwritten’ in 2023, THUMPER toss audiences into an immersive sonic hurricane with ‘The Drip’. Recorded and produced with Rian Trench and Alex Ferrar on mixing duties, ‘The Drip’ presents with frenzied ferocity captured in this crazy bubble of music twirling about you with reckless kaleidoscopic abandon. It’s a wild rollercoaster of emotion and sound, but at the same time, amidst the threads of drums and guitars, there is an odd sincerity and intricate fragility.
Melodically, ‘The Drip’ is a song that will hit you in the face, leaving you stunned for several hours, like that last vodka shot at the end of the wild night. Yet, as much as you lose yourself in ‘The Drip’, it is the lyricism and theme that add weightiness. The band explain:
“’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… but also an IV drip – something that keeps you alive, hooked to your veins. The song has no chorus – no release, but it’s joyous and builds with momentum with each passing section… This conflict between love for the thing, and the thing destroying you – that’s ‘The Drip’…”
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