Praise for “Delusions of Grandeur”
Choice Prize Album of the Year Nominee
Top 30 Irish Albums of the Year (Hot Press) / Top 10 Albums of the Year (Irish Examiner) / 10 Best Albums of the Year (The Irish Times)
30 Best Irish Albums of the Year (Nialler9) / Top 10 Irish Albums of the Year (The Last Mixed Tape)
Top 100 Releases of the Year (The Thin Air) / Top Irish Albums of 2022 (Goldenplec) / Top 20 Albums of 2022 (Full Pelt Music)
Top 7 Irish Albums of the Year (Headstuff) / Top 10 Albums of the Year (Radio Nova) / Top 10 Albums of the Year (Beat FM)
“An outstanding album... polished and rapturous” / 9/10 The Line of Best Fit
In the last 20 months Dublin psych-pop six piece THUMPER have gone from playing small hometown shows to touring Europe extensively,
selling out headline shows, opening for Kasabian on their Irish tour, and hitting festivals such as Mad Cool (Madrid), Reading & Leeds (UK),
Iceland Airwaves (IS), Haldern Pop (DE), Electric Picnic (IE), United Artists Prague, and many more.
With a line-up of two drummers and four guitarists, THUMPER's maximalist wall of sound has long since set them apart in the booming
Dublin music scene and has them "punching like heavyweights alongside Fontaines DC and The Murder Capital" (Chris Hawkins, BBC
Radio 6). Their debut album Delusions of Grandeur was an epic introduction to the bands psych-drenched rumble which juxtaposes
towering walls of distortion with saccharine melody and unabashed hooks.
In 2023 alone, the album landed them a nomination for Irish Album of the Year at the 2023 Choice Prize alongside Fontaines DC, Just
Mustard, CMAT, Dermot Kennedy and more. Before thundering into the ESNS Radio Charts THUMPER received UK and international airplay
across BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Radio X, KEXP, Kink, Kerrang and many more as well as having made noteworthy TV performances on
RTE’s Tommy Tiernan Show and Other Voices. By the end of 2023 THUMPER sold out Dublin’s hallowed Button
Factory venue, leading them into 2024 where they begin work on their hotly anticipated sophomore LP.