The Depot Sessions | THUMPER release a new track, 'The Drip'

Date: Fri, 6 June

Time: 8pm-Midnight

Venue: The Depot @ The Complex,12 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7, D07XR70

Tickets: €15+fees here

The Depot Sessions headline act, THUMPER, have a new single ' The Drip' out tomorrow, Friday 23 May.

You can hear their new track live at The Depot Sessions 3 on Fri, Jun 6. THUMPER, along with support act Dose, will have brand new music as well as their previous hits at the in-the-round show. There will be a special after-party DJ set by Really Good Time, until midnight.

'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.' 

—THUMPER