Acclaimed Dublin alt-rockers THUMPER share epic offering “Middle Management,” alongside the announcement of their upcoming sophomore album Sleeping With The Light On.
Channeling psych-pop confidence alongside alt-rock edges, the fuzzy riffs blend into powerful guitars and urgent vocals for a hypnotic yet intense sonic experience. Delivering a psychedelic world that expands and flourishes with each note, the track is long and rousing at 10 minutes leading us into an immersive world.
Speaking of the track, frontman Oisin Furlong Leahy,“Middle Management is a song that we attempted to write and repeatedly scrapped for years. The first demo dates back to well before the first album, and there were probably 10 versions since then. During COVID, as we knuckled down with this new body of work, the song re-emerged and we very gradually hammered it into shape, condensing years of ideas into something cohesive.
The song itself is an outlier on the album. Every other song coming in at around the 4 minute mark, Middle Management is a clean 10 minutes long. The vocal hook ‘I thought that I could change, I thought that you could too’ repeated into abstraction as it becomes unclear if the narrator has any intention of changing at all. In addition to the walls of guitars, vocal harmonies and propulsive krautrock drums, the song also features co-producer Rian Trench on Synth and Piano – the first time a THUMPER song has featured anyone other than the six core members.”
From local shows to nationwide tours, THUMPER have gone from strength to strength since 2021 and now with their upcoming new album and a string of dates for February 2026, they continue to establish themselves as act to keep on your radar.
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