THUMPER - Sleeping With The Light On - 2LP - Black Vinyl [FEB 20]

2LP – Black Vinyl

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.