Thumper release new song ‘The Drip’
THUMPER have released a brand new song!
The new song, titled The Trip, is the brand new single from the Dublin-based noise-pop band and follows on from their previous single, Summer Assault, which was released back in December 2022. The new single is the first of a series of releases across 2025 leading to the release of their sophomore album which follows debut, Delusions Of Grandeur, which was released back in March 2022.
Speaking about the new single, the band shares, “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.”
Listen to The Drip here:
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