Acclaimed Dublin alt-rockers THUMPER announce their upcoming sophomore Sleeping With
The Light On and share the rousing 10 minute epic ‘Middle Management’ (out 26th Sept).
Following the Choice Music Prize nominated debut album Delusions of Grandeur (alongside
the likes of CMAT, Fontaines DC, The Mary Wallopers and Dermot Kennedy), as well as
announcing the upcoming new album, the band also announce a string of dates for February
2026 – including a huge hometown show in The Academy Dublin.
A couple of weeks after finishing their first album, and months before it would be released,
THUMPER found themselves back in the rehearsal room writing again. Shortly into this process
the pandemic hit and it had a profound effect on the songs that were being produced. The
songs became darker, but also somehow more precise. Slowly the new album came into
focus. It was named Sleeping With The Light On to acknowledge this darker, paranoid energy
that was beginning to form in the band, but also that the making of the album itself was an
effort to dispel that darkness, that there was light to be enjoyed – in time.
