THUMPER have announced their new album with early single 'Middle Management'

Dublin-based alt-rock ensemble THUMPER have announced their forthcoming second album, 'Sleeping With The Light On', for 20th February.

The follow up to their debut album 'Delusions of Grandeur', the record is teased by new single (and 10-minute epic) 'Middle Management'.

Frontman Oisin Furlong Leahy commented on the track: "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."

THUMPER will play a series of live shows in February 2026, with more dates to be announced.