Credit: Ruth Medjber
Words: Sam Geary
Irish rockers Thumper have a new single out today - the raucous 'Topher Grace’.
The track is the band’s second drop of 2020 after ‘Ad Nauseam’, and was inspired by everything from "songwriters like Courtney Barnett and James Murphy, to Mark E. Smith and Nick Cave, with the latter especially influencing the bridge between lyrical sentiment and true performance," says frontman Oisin Furlong.
“The song is about going out on the rip as an act of self-destruction, thinly disguised as a voyage of self-reflection. It swings from sincerity to hyperbole and back again, in the voice of someone who’s too deep in it to see the wood for the trees. Honesty and braggadocio form a potent cocktail, as the narrative is bent to breaking point."
The band are also set to play a live streamed show from a secret location in Dublin this Saturday June 27 via their YouTube channel here - along with exclusive 'Topher Grace' merch, with a percentage of all profits going to MASI (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland).
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